English - Celebrity | October 31, 1926 - October 29, 2011
We live in a very funny world, and it's easier for me as a single man to say I don't like children, because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.
Jimmy Savile
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I have got a pretty good memory.
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Royalty are surrounded by people who don't know how to deal with it.
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I don't watch soaps, because they're for regular viewers with regular lives, and I don't have a regular life.
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The first thing I ever won was a talent contest when I was ten years old.
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Everything I've done - 'Top Of The Pops,' 'Jim'll Fix It,' 'Radio 1' - all developed into legends.
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A song tells a story.
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Most newborn things are influenced by parents or even grandparents.
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Live TV, which is happening as you see it, is very exciting to do. Any mistake is seen by millions, and if there is a technical breakdown, one has to ad lib or improvise like mad.
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On Wednesday, January 1, 1954, at 6:30 P.M., I presented the first-ever 'Top of the Pops.' I remember a journalist asking me how long I thought the programme would last. I said to him, 'It will last as long as people buy records.'
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I invented 'Top of the Pops' when I was a top-class DJ playing in dance halls and discotheques.
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I ran 'Top of the Pops' from the perspective of a DJ. So I would identify the best dancer and the best-dressed audience member and make them part of the show. They were as important as any of the bands.
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