You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.
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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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It’s among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
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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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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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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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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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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back
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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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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
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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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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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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 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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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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