Melvyn Bragg Quotes
The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Since the 1950s, the key equation of quantum gravity has been called the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Bryce DeWitt and John Wheeler wrote it down, but in all the time since then, no one had been able to solve it. We found we could solve it exactly, and in fact we found an infinite number of exact solutions.
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The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.
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Editing is kind of a solitary job.
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The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
