Melvyn Bragg Quotes

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

What's going on in my life, I never bring it to the basketball court.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.