Billy Bragg Quotes
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.
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The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
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I realized then our display of “caring” must have felt to her much like a gang rape.
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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
