Craig Brown Quotes

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

Craig Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMyselfDayResultsNewTake

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

Maxine Peake

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I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest.

Robert Rinder

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I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Mavis Staples

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Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.

Matthew Pearl

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I was just happy with having friends that I liked and going to shows that I wanted to see.

Soccer Mommy

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I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

Roger Mahony

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When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

Rosamund Pike

EyesTimePeopleBelieveYouFirst

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Bob Dylan

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Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

Anne Campbell

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Shelby Foote

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They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Thomas Keller

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Producing is a little bit in my blood. Philanthropy also is a very important for me.

Nina Tassler

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