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Favourite heckles were: "You stole my pension, Brown!", "You're a bigger bastard that Blair!" and "Where's the gold, Brown?", which particularly infuriated him.
When P. K. Simonds, a self-effacing writer, got his first job as a show runner, a managerial position, on "Party of Five," Michels said, "P.K., you need to be a much bigger bastard".
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"He's a big bad bastard and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too," he said.
And Murdoch is "a big bad bastard" who despises politicians ("they get in his way") unless you convince him you can be one too, he added.
Price explains in his book: Blair and [Alastair] Campbell took to heart the advice of the Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, on how to deal with Murdoch: "He's a big bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too.
Without ever saying so at that stage, Blair would leave interviewers with the impression that he knew he was dealing with a "big, bad bastard"; it was just business.
"The Arabs can be bastards," said another, "but we shall be bigger bastards".
He's been played sometimes as a victim and sometimes as the biggest bastard in the house".
Stocky and rather blunt, he relished his reputation as "the biggest bastard in the valley", used colourful, earthy language, and declared "Artists fuck groupies.
I doubt there was a single viewer not squealing with joy when Ramsay Bolton – the biggest bastard in Game of Thrones – was eaten alive by his own dogs.
From the big bastard riff of "New Born" through the cathartic, lung-bursting double of "Plug in Baby" and "Time is Running Out" to the berserk cavalry charge finale of "Knights of Cydonia".
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