Rick Bragg
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES LAUREN MYRACLE QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II NEIL GAIMAN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... "“I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. ... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU THOMAS HARRIS KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON OSHO I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM JACK KEROUAC CORY DOCTOROW JACK KEROUAC MORGAN FREEMAN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... PAULO COELHO What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA C. JOYBELL C. Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy. ALBERT II OF BELGIUM QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN PRINCE CHARLES HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt. PRINCESS MARGARET God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Althoug... JANE GREY MARIE ANTOINETTE ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew a... SARAH FERGUSON QUEEN VICTORIA QUEEN VICTORIA PRINCESS DIANA MARIE LOUISE HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA CHARLES V HUSSEIN OF JORDAN KING SOLOMON FREDERICK THE GREAT PRINCE PHILIP NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA LOUIS XIV MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM KING JAMES I PRINCE CHARLES PRINCESS DIANA I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS MARIE ANTOINETTE CHARLES V QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS QUEEN VICTORIA QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
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It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never... MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. MELVYN BRAGG Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! MELVYN BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i... MELVYN BRAGG The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'. BILLY BRAGG That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians... BILLY BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.BILLY BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser... MELVYN BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an... MELVYN BRAGG This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful. GARY BRAGG That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world.... BILLY BRAGG I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. BILLY BRAGG I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ... BILLY BRAGG An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. BILLY BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe... MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,... MELVYN BRAGG Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. MELVYN BRAGG A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. .... BILLY BRAGG And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so... BILLY BRAGG You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ... BILLY BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,... MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ... MELVYN BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other... MELVYN BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. MELVYN BRAGG Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro... BILLY BRAGG In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. BILLY BRAGG A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars. GARY BRAGG Maybe a few dozen are left. GARY BRAGG The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we... MELVYN BRAGG The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g... MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster... MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. MELVYN BRAGG Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, BILLY BRAGG To have accountability you must get out and vote! BILLY BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ... MELVYN BRAGG Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. BILLY BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh... MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste... MELVYN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num... MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea... MELVYN BRAGG We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. BILLY BRAGG My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. 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I've got the opportun... BILLY BRAGG It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu... BILLY BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli... MELVYN BRAGG My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. BILLY BRAGG Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ... BILLY BRAGG I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro... BILLY BRAGG I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come... BILLY BRAGG There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona... BILLY BRAGG So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t... 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I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... 
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Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... 
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It's very special having a new little girl. 
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I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... 
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