John Gimlette Quotes - Page 2

• I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

  John Gimlette

  Phones, Views, People

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• I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

  John Gimlette

  Successful, Thinking, America

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• Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

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  Community, Radio, Way

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• There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

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  Media, Feelings, Way

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• What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.

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  Finding Yourself, Cuba, Bars

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• Suelo preferir viajar por los países del Tercer Mundo. Como Etiopía. O Eritrea.

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  Country, Eritrea, World

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• I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.

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  Doe, Cuba, Way

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• No soy apologista del régimen de Fidel [Castro]. Después de todo, es un régimen totalitario. Así que me gustaría que eso cambiara.

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  Regimes, Castro, Totalitarian Regimes

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• I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.

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  Nice, Eye, Ideas

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• Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

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  War, People, Different

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• Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

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  Italian, Blood, America

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• Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

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  Thinking, Cities, Buenos Aires

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• I'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country.Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.

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  País, Guerra, Corazón

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• Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

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  Jobs, Boss, Ambassadors

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• It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key.

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  Keys, Borders, Wonderland

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• In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

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  People, Tough, Environment

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• I am certainly very pro-Europe.

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  Europa

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• Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

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  Vikings, Trails, Mines

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• There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship.

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  Years, People, Fifty

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• When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three times around the block to get in. And when they got to the head of the queue, they'd go, "I'll have a Big Mac please. Have you the cheese and the rolls? And do you have the meat and do you have the salad?" And everybody asks this because they are so used to things being awful that it took them a quarter of an hour to order a Big Mac.

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  Block, Mcdonalds, Order

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• I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

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  Real, Cuba, Culture

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

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  Talking, People, Four

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• I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

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  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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• I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.

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  Libro, Escritura, Diferente

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• India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

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  Strong, Father, Blood

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