I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.
A. A. GILLYou 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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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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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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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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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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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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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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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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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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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
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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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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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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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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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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.
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