Melvyn Bragg Quotes

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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I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

John Catsimatidis

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I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.

Anat Cohen

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It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

Simon Rattle

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I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

Jason Statham

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The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

Colleen Ballinger

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The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

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The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

Thomas Leonard

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I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Noreena Hertz

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I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

Richard Artschwager

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Beauty and youth can stay inside, but it doesn't outside.

Rene Russo

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As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Mark Billingham

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I'm actually very loyal, to my detriment.

Mariah Carey

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