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" 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. "

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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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Two

Looking Forward

Looking

" 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.' "

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Opinion

Enough

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Say

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

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

" 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. "

" That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. "

" 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. "

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Long

Names

" You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "