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" 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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Joy

Edge

Corner

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Say

" I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. "

" The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Moment

Character

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. "

" 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. "

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Opinion

Enough

" 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. "

" Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Long

Names

" 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. "

" Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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

" 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

" Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility. "

" 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 was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. "

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

" I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. "

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

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "