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Craig Brown Quotes

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: english
Birth: May 23, 1957

Topics

Art Cleanliness Scourge

As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.

Live Sports Ideas World Literature

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

Make It Happen You Fast Filmmaking

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Truth Truth Is Think Never Subject

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

Way Responsible Prioritize Disasters

Trends have come and gone and they're coming back my way so I'm super excited about that.

Back Way Trends Coming Gone Excited

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Robert Browning

Old Rather Shocked Than Before Very

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Life People City Country Make Most

I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.

Age Foundation America Year Career

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Best Silence Me Night House Late

We women feel we are here to serve. That's the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don't own us, but too often we let them.

Susan L. Taylor

Women Children Responsibility Mistake

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

Peter Blair Henry

Small Place Economy Open Get Global

I love football. I played it into two years of college.

Peter Landesman

Love Football College Two Years

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