Quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby

About Jonathan Dimbleby:

Jonathan Dimbleby is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, a political commentator and a writer. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of British TV presenter David Dimbleby.
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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.

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

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Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.

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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...

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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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My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if yo...

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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.

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

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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 televisi...

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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 l...

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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.

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

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

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

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The long, forensic interview really matters.

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Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Dimbleby
  • DescriptionTelevision presenter, journalist
  • BornJuly 31, 1944
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Presenter