Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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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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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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As we get older... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
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I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
