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Melvyn Bragg Quotes

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 6, 1939

Topics

Government Out Arts Set Funding

There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

Good Myself Listening Think Feel

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

Work Hard Work Live Truth People

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

Attitude People Yes Little Five

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Love Father Son God Wisdom Eyes

There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.

Think More Difference Audience Shady

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

Love Music You Know Call Well

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

Faith Humanity Goodness Lost Never

We Filipinos have to exercise the necessary pressure on Marcos. But it would certainly help our cause if the Americans would stop supporting Mr. Marcos.

Pressure Help Exercise Stop Would

I decided to go and find India on my own. So, I hired a cab for a drive round old Delhi. I was knocked off center by the sheer energy that goes into daily survival.

Daily Drive Energy Survival Find Go

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

Art Myself Me Self Become Knowing

The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.

Family Good Best Advice You Got

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

Life Work Past Thought My Life You

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