Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Malcolm Bradbury

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• Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Home
  • Challenge
  • Painting

• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Serious

• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Never
  • Season

• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Song
  • New

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Kids
  • Things
  • Young

• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Parents

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
  • Good
  • Working
  • Cinema

• So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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  • Work
  • Hard

• Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Good
  • Women
  • Guy

• Why is partying and having a good time bad?

  

  Tara Reid
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Win

• Modern dancing is old fashioned.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Old
  • Modern
  • Dancing

• Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Want
  • Goals
  • Go

• I went through a lot of mental pains and anguish about choosing between jazz and classical. I realized that where I functioned was where I should be, and where I functioned was in jazz, so that was it.

  

  William John Evans

• You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Time
  • World
  • Transform

• A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
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