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Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Enjoy Place Most About

We are here to entertain and ultimately put smiles on people's faces.

People Smiles Here Faces Entertain

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'

Jessica Simpson

Love Man Think Thought Athlete

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

Home Tired Writing Go Done Hard

My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

Architecture Mountains School College

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

John Edgar Wideman

Change Hurt Violence Place Real May

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

Focus Progress Building Late Started

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Children People Never Who Though

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

Time People Me See I See Historical

Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language - no words. Sharing people's stories through the art of movement is magical.

Art Dance Words People Growing Up

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

Entrepreneur Successful Expertise

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

Education World Higher Education Same

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.

Family American Only Accent

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