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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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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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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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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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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.
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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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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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