Billy Bragg Quotes

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

Billy Bragg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 20, 1957

Topics

ThinkProcessYouArtistImportant

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Stephen Covey

LifeFamilyTimeTelevisionSay

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Steve Martin

LovePeopleYouWayFirstSomething

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Mary MacLane

HappinessBeautifulFameBrilliant

It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day.

Jonathan Dee

DayWaitingBookYouPhoneNice

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Condoleezza Rice

EducationCommunityRacismParents

I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.

Brooke Shields

GoodTrustMeThinkingParentYou

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

Woodrow Wilson

ServiceManI AmHappyBe HappyYou

I believe in myself and my art so much. I've always trusted destiny. Wherever it takes me, I just work damn hard at the opportunity.

Priyanka Chopra

WorkOpportunityArtMyselfMeDamn

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

Penelope Cruz

GoodPeopleHelpYouThreeOkay

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

Pawel Pawlikowski

FreedomCreativeThinkAmericaYou

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Shannen Doherty

AloneMyselfShoppingHouseLeave

Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I am, of course, judged by my acts, but do they really afford a true key to my character? I think not.

Richard Jefferies

CharacterPowerI AmMeThinkKey

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