Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'

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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
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He's healthy now and ready, ... Nate makes big plays. Like that last series, when we needed a couple of first downs, we put the ball in his hands and he got it done for us.
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For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.
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Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different.
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'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'