Craig Brown Quotes

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ReligionJealousyThinkYouEnvy

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

Jhene Aiko

YoungWantKindWriteSameLane

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Jennifer Granholm

LeadershipTreesYouKnowSometimes

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.

John Christopher

ChildrenWritingLadyEarlyTrue

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

Melanie Lynskey

WorkChallengesDifficultHappen

Honestly, it's such a personal issue, I really don't think my feud with Edge will ever end. It's almost comparable to the Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels thing. There is just such legit hatred between the two guys.

Matt Hardy

ThinkEndEdgePersonalWillHatred

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Michael Dell

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We want to represent the things we believe.

Sonny Sandoval

BelieveWantThingsRepresent

Winning fires me up.

Robbie Lawler

MeWinningUpFires

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Monica Ali

LifeYouDownSituationBornRun

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Dolly Parton

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One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

China Anne McClain

MusicTimeMeFriendsHouseActing

There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

Anohni

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