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.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Girl
  • Die
  • Movies

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• 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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• I definitely would not do a reality show.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Would

• Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Benefits
  • Tell

• 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.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• 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.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Easy
  • Very
  • Through

• I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Alien

• 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.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Parents
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Free
  • Globalization

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Fall

• I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Believe

• The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

  

  Maryam D'Abo
  • Wonder
  • Dying

• It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

  

  John Patrick Shanley
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Blue

• What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Age
  • Night
  • Water

• Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Music

• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• He didn't look good against Pittsburgh. Maybe he just had a bad day.

  

  Charles Tillman
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Melvyn Bragg
  • Different
  • Career
  • Changed