India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on.… — John Gimlette Affinity Copy Share Image
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain?… — John Gimlette America Copy Share Image
I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we… — John Gimlette Britain Copy Share Image
I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics]… — John Gimlette Britain Copy Share Image
I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq.… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting… — John Gimlette Argument Copy Share Image
It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time… — John Gimlette Architecture Copy Share Image
The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when… — John Gimlette Dog Copy Share Image
I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect,… — John Gimlette Continent Copy Share Image
Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because… — John Gimlette Ambassador Copy Share Image
There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people… — John Gimlette Debate Copy Share Image
Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which… — John Gimlette America Copy Share Image
I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am… — John Gimlette Capitalism Copy Share Image
I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
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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.” quote by John Gimlette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/john-gimlette-11101_areas_there-are-60-million-of-us-britains-cram_836273.jpg)
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