English - Journalist | October 6, 1939 -
Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.
Melvyn Bragg
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Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'
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I'm a class mongrel.
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It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.
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I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.
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I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.
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I don't feel like I'm slowing down.
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My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.
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I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.
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