Melvyn Bragg Quotes
My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.
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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
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My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.
