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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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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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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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 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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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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Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.
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Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.
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I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
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I never spent much time with people my own age.
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English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.
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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
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If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.
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We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.
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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.
