Billy Bragg Quotes

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

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• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
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• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
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• What is important is to win.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
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• One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
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• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.

  

  Calvin Cheng
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• I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

  

  David Nicholls

• I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
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• When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

  

  Ben Chaplin
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• I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

  

  Drew Barrymore
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• The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

  

  Billy Bragg
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