Jonathan Dimbleby quotes

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. (Jonathan Dimbleby)
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. View quote
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I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. View quote
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I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. View quote
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I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism. View quote
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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. View quote
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Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. View quote
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I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. View quote
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. View quote
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While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. View quote
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You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. (Jonathan Dimbleby)
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. View quote
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I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. View quote
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That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. View quote
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I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.' View quote
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I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity. View quote
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Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong. View quote
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Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it. View quote
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It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night. View quote
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The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. View quote
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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters. (Jonathan Dimbleby)

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Photo: Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: British Writer
Born: July 31, 1944
Quotes count: 21