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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. "

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Jonathan Dimbleby

Born

Father

Great

" Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again. "

" I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy. "

" As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Yourself

Time

" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "

" I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine. "

" I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Write

Either

" At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots. "

" 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.' "

" Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Think

" For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't. "

" 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. "

" In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. "

" 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. "

" I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. "

" The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. "

" As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Rich

Africa

" Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard. "

" It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Opinion

Enough

" I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. "

" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "

" I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that. "

" The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Prince

Original

" 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. "

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

" I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation. "

" I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. "

" 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. "

" I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. "