Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'

Malcolm Bradbury

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• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Good
  • Like
  • Gems

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Good
  • Better
  • Minimum Wage

• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Fashion
  • Rock
  • Dress

• 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.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Moment
  • Emotion
  • Piano

• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Polls

• Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

  

  Lana Turner
  • She
  • Know
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Period

• I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Interior

• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Famous
  • Driving
  • Prison

• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Knowing
  • Finding

• 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.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Up
  • Live
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Great
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Day
  • Living

• I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Need

• Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music

• 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!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • World
  • Death

• If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • People
  • World
  • Criticize

• The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

  

  Ian Christe
  • Kids

• Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Shadow

• We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.

  

  Allegra Goodman
  • Want
  • Gene
  • Acquisitive

• I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Beach

• 'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury