Melvyn Bragg Quotes

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.

Melvyn Bragg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

YourselfThinkYouLookTelevision

I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.

Jim Nabors

PressureI CanWantWithoutHaving

I could never lie to someone to benefit myself, so telemarketing was something I was terrible at!

Jermaine Fowler

MyselfLieSomeoneNeverSomething

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Simon Newcomb

CloudsDisappointmentWorldTraveled

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

River Phoenix

CharacterBeachFootballPeopleMe

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

Rose Namajunas

MeSocietyDirectionThinkingPush

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

Lucy Hale

LifeHomeCarHeartTimeGuitar

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

Jonathan Levine

HomeComing HomeDirectorComing

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

Jon Cryer

HobbyAlwaysThingsShowThose

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Philip Guston

ArtPaintRatherThanPicturing

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

Peter Hook

LifeMusicYouImportantEveryone

We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.

Peggy Johnson

PartnerProblemLookTryRebuildUs

The separation of audience into tribes preferring to reinforce their own views with media of similar ideological stripe makes true debate impossible.

Richard Edelman

ImpossibleMediaDebateTrueOwn

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Melvyn Bragg