Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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It's a pure dream team to work with Hrithik, Sanjay sir and Rakesh sir.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. Thats what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.
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I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.
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Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
