Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
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I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
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Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
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The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'
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It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
