Melvyn Bragg Quotes
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.
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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
