Melvyn Bragg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
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Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.
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When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right
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Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.
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More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.
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History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.
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To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.
-- Melvyn Bragg
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Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
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It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
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The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
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The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
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I grew up with British rock.
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I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
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I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.
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Ive worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.
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