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Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Malcolm Bradbury

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 7, 1932 - November 27, 2000

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Grow Corruption Innocent Sin Young

I train in different modalities so that each muscle is targeted twice a week, with two days of rest in between.

Jillian Michaels

Rest Week Train Muscle Two Days

A bowler can make or break a chap.

John Newton

Break Make Bowler Chap

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

Steve Coogan

I Am Appreciation Famous America You

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Family Wife You Bachelor Own Come

Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you.

Molly Crabapple

Day Job Me Doing You Artist

I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be able to have that clarity of experience that changes us, so that we know who we are now because of who we have been at some other time.

Colum McCann

Time Experience Think Clarity Know

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

Colson Whitehead

Me Voice Write Out Figure Takes

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

Brad Grey

Style Strategy Find Way My Own Own

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

Bryan Cranston

Angry You Will Director Everyone

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Antonin Artaud

Men Literature Want Human Above Off

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Aubrey Peeples

Learning Time Day End Of The Day End

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

Nik Wallenda

Me Praying Lot Helped