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Craig Brown Quotes

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hat Touch Way Out Blazer Even

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

Joey Lauren Adams

Friend Best Me Best Friend Think

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

Fool Patriot Never

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Ani DiFranco

Beautiful Guitar Down True Sound Up

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.

Stephen Cole

Eyes Bond View First Watching Years

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

Stefon Harris

Great Food Energy Barcelona Italy

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

Stefon Harris

Doing Everyone Whatever Advocate

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Shirley Jones

Great Best Looking Wake Up Bad See

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

Moira Kelly

Face Lost Battles Turn Core Would

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

Joseph Butler

Love Words People Remember You Who

Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.

Joseph Stiglitz

People Society You Look Inequality

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Deepak Chopra

Negative Side Some Biographies

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Walk Fight People Small Think Out