Melvyn Bragg Quotes

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.

Melvyn Bragg

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'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

Jenny Slate

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Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

Megan Smith

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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Shirley Manson

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And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

Michael Polanyi

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I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Michael Stipe

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My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

Miranda Cosgrove

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I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Louise Brown

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My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Drake Bell

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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Cliff Stearns

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What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

Ashton Eaton

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I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

Peter Navarro

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I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.

Rich Brian

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