The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
A. A. GILLA 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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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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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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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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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we’d like to be seen.
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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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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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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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