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" I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter. "

Melvyn Bragg

Yourself

Look

Television

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Melvyn Bragg

Culture

Class

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Informed

Wanting

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Melvyn Bragg

Day

Enjoy

" I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try. "

Melvyn Bragg

Admire

I Can

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Melvyn Bragg

Falling

Him

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" I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men. "

Melvyn Bragg

Words

Thinking