Melvyn Bragg Quotes
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Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.
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I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
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Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'
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Free haircuts are definitely a nice perk.
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
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Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
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One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that normally happens in a working situation where everyone homogenizes and concedes certain points - so eventually they're all playing in roughly the same style. I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away. So there would be a kind of space in the middle where I could operate, and attempt to make these things coalesce in some way. In fact quite a lot of my stuff has arisen from that.
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
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People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.
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When we are confident, all we need is a little support.
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Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.
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Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
