Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.
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I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
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I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
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The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.
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Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.
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The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?'
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I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
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I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
