Craig Brown Quotes

When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

John Burnside

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If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

Anderson Cooper

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I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

Maxine Peake

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Luck's always to blame.

Jean de La Fontaine

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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

John Sexton

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I use Simple face wipes and Nivea face cream. For my body any kind of body butter, the more moisturising the better.

Amber Le Bon

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Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.

Tony Rock

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Any film you make is a crap shoot.

Robert Englund

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Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield

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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Ronald Blythe

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Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I've always lived by that.

Ruby Rose

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I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

Jason Scott Lee

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