What we were trying to do here is to find a consensus that this was a good direction to go in and that there weren't any fundamental problems, and I think we pretty much agreed on that.
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BRIAN ENO When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great act... BRIAN BLESSED People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it... BRIAN BLESSED My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for ... BRIAN BLESSED Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - w... BRIAN BLESSED My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a... BRIAN BLESSED