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Alastair Campbell
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 25
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Keighley
West Yorkshire
Alastair John Campbell
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I had a happy childhood.
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One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.
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Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
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He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.
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In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
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Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.
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Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege.
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One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
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I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
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The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.
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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
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