America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A. A. GILLI still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they’re both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They’re not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.
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Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo’s compliment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
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I don’t know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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The truth and the facts aren’t necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
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