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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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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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Aware Children Guess Interest Myself Television
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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Art Fact Ideas Imagination Object Truth
The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
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Allow Chef Freedom Room Window World
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.
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Drawing Explore Myself Perspective Travel World
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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Country Kind Poor Recognition Rich Sports Visible
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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Knowledge Laughter Reality Television Thinking
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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Adult Behavior Failure Interest Knowledge Learning School Think Wish
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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Change Civilization Creation Escape Profound Technology
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back
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Command Glacier Last Man Myself Stand
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.
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Appearance Gift Ourselves Reputation See Television
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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First Forest Forget Night Remember Sex Yourself
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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Deep Fiction Future History Past Present Science
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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Death Doctor Health Insanity Life Unfair
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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Afternoon Believe Secret Sun Test Time Watch Yourself
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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Compliment Excellence Glory Promise
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Dull Fact Opinion People

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