Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.

Melvyn Bragg

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Oh, talking about private school, man, I had cornrows, and when I picked 'em out, certain people that didn't look like me always wanted to touch 'em. One time, I just said, 'Yo, hell no.'

John David Washington

TimeManSchoolPeopleMeHell

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Stephen Covey

ExpectationsStrongPressureData

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

Stella McCartney

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I basically work all the time.

St. Lucia

WorkTimeBasically

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.

Stormzy

CulturePeopleProblemKnowStreet

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Michael Rostovtzeff

ValueMeInformationSometimesMore

The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.

Jason Gedrick

HopeWalkPeopleDespairLeave

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Jonathan Nolan

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Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

Chrystia Freeland

MusicRelationshipPowerWarMoving

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Bradley Chicho

MountainMeSolitudeClimbGrit

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Bram Stoker

AgeMenMayOnlyPartGuess

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Brooks Adams

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