Billy Bragg Quotes
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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'Red vs Blue' as a show has evolved dramatically. It looks an entirely different show to what we started with, but the format of the show has changed so much over the years, too.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
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I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
