Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city. Ask what are the clothes of the city, what does this city represent for me?

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.

I used to have a little Geordie accent when I was younger; they called me Little Geordie Fran.

I have lived my whole life in Delhi. I used to live in Rohini and then I moved to Munirka. I have seen north and south Delhi very closely. That's why my songs and raps have a Dilli waali feel to it. Delhi made me who I am today and I am proud of it.

When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it.' You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history.

I'm a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.

The Bay, they got their own sound, they don't try to be like nobody. They smooth out there.

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.

The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.

What's special about Salt Lake, it's a small, tight-knit, close community.

I've always been an England fan. I was born and bred here.

The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'

I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

A lot of people from Buffalo haven't even been outside of Buffalo. Probably 75% of Buffalo never even been in New York City. We just come from a different kind of place. You just have to be from there to kind of understand that.

Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed.

Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.