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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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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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'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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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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There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.
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The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
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False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
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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.
