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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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A place where nobody dared to go the love that we came to know They call it Xanadu And now, open your eyes and see what we have made is real We are in Xanadu A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu
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In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it.
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
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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.
