Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Malcolm Bradbury

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryMenAmericanTryingBurn

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Jerry Spinelli

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Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Joel Osteen

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While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.

Jennifer Hyman

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I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

Jeffrey Tate

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I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Jenna Elfman

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Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

John Strachan

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The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Michelle Obama

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My relationship to comics isn't nearly as strong as some people's. Ha! I mean, I grew up with a comic book fanatic. My older brother was, and still is, obsessed. And I was obsessed with the fact that he was obsessed, because I was obsessed with him. But not necessarily with comics themselves.

Jason Reynolds

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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

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There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

Christian Louboutin

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I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

Bonnie McKee

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