Craig Brown Quotes

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsSleepYouWayTalkUp

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Ann Leckie

SciencePerceptionScience Fiction

I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.

John Tiffany

HateTheatreExerciseRulesDone

I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone's only attracted to you because they're ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.

Stella Young

RelationshipMeIgnoreSomeoneLook

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

PeopleDemocracyOverPoliticians

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

Ruth Bernhard

GoodNeverPhotographListenerTook

Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.

Mary-Kate Olsen

MeFeelDifferentLikeTotally

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Jason Katims

FunRealityComedyYouDramaMore

We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

Dick Durbin

GunEnoughChicagoOutGunsSell

For us, giving back is not an extracurricular activity.

Denise Morrison

GivingBackGiving BackUsActivity

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

DeForest Soaries

PoliticalEnoughPlaceTrueHand

Some people will basically just shred all over everything, even a ballad. I'm glad I wasn't born with that genetic chip - the need to just wheedle-whee all over the place.

Synyster Gates

PeopleBornPlaceWillNeedOver

I love scenes with minimal dialogue.

Peter Gould

LoveDialogueScenesMinimalI Love

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