Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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This is a strange game.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
