Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

Melvyn Bragg

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  Edgar Allan Poe
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• Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

  

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• We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

  

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• I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

  

  Dan Hicks
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• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

  Babe Ruth
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• No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Remember
  • Never
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• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

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• When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Kids
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• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
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• I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.

  

  Ed Gamble
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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
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  • Forget

• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I fell in love with dressing myself up.

  

  Fan Bingbing
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  • Dressing
  • Fell

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  

  Samuel Barber
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• I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.

  

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• I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"

  

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  William Godwin
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  • Forget
  • Educate

• My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.

  

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  Questlove
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• I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

  

  Melvyn Bragg
  • Forget
  • Interview
  • Dressing