David Jason (David John White) Quotes
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
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Love has no age.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
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Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.
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A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
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The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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Of course, with showbiz there's a lot of negative things, along with the positive, and it's just what you choose to focus on. And I choose to focus on the positive.
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Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
