Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a wonderful starting point.

Melvyn Bragg

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LifeLookingStoryRealityStarting

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Jim Sullivan

PeopleMeThinkPageFirstWho

I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

Joe Mande

LifeDogWritingNowBullJokes

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Jennifer McMahon

PastSpiritualBelieveKindPlaces

On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.

Michael Dirda

HomeBeautifulGreatTimeDayGray

I'm a little smarter than most.

John Rhys-Davies

LittleSmarterMostThan

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

Steve Guttenberg

MeRichDoingYouSayWhy

People down on their luck deserve the best: beautiful surroundings and well-paid professional staff to help them out of their difficulties. Why not train thousands more social workers and let them sit in on claimants' interviews?

Sue Townsend

BeautifulBestPeopleLuckHelpWhy

I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.

Roger Taylor

PeopleThinkThoughtWrongKindGot

I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

Rita Ora

GoSpontaneousGutVery

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

Miley Cyrus

NervousMoreConcertGetAnxious

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Livy

WarUpsetMoreNowhereThanOur

I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Joyce Banda

LifeEducationWomenBusinessMyself

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