English - Journalist | October 6, 1939 -
I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.
Melvyn Bragg
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Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.
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If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now!
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We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice.
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I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.
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That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else.
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To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.
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A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.
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I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.
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Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys.
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People in jobs that they hate must be worn out.
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I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together.
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