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.
Melvyn Bragg
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
Hannibal Buress
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.
Harold Prince
At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
V. S. Naipaul
Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
Karisma Kapoor
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
Oliver Stone
Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
J. D. Pardo
When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.
Jesmyn Ward
My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got.
Eliza Doolittle
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
P. D. James
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
G. Willow Wilson
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.
Melvyn Bragg
