Melvyn Bragg Quotes

The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it.

Melvyn Bragg

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But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

Jilly Cooper

GodBookThinkBetterLearnStop

When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.

Jens Lekman

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It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

Melvin Maddocks

TestUsWriterHeHimselfReminds

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Robert Mundell

EducationGoodAdviceGood Advice

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Angela Carter

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I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

Steve Harvey

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While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

WorkTogetherPeopleWealthLiving

I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.

Su-chin Pak

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I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

Sid Vicious

DieFeelingKnowWhyOldGet

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

Robin Williams

WorkHeartI AmSayingSomeoneYou

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

Roy Ayers

LifeEnjoy LifeHappyBe HappyEnjoy

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

Colleen Haskell

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