Clive James
Clive James
Clive James AO CBEis an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1962...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth7 October 1939
CountryAustralia
kgb secret british
The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
sports rude chess
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
wisdom thinking world
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
effort done honest
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.
technology college university-degrees
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
essence class justice
The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
worry world alive
Stop worrying - nobody gets out of this world alive.
reading thinking sea
I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.
dirty cities names
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there
player wimbledon way
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
opinion talent natural
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.
towers want
Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.
classic
An education without a Bible education is no education.
queens america world
In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.