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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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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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.
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Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
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I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
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I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.
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I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.
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I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
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Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.
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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.
