Eric Brown Quotes

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• I have always loathed working out.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
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• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
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  • Luck
  • Presence

• Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Me
  • Control
  • Marriage

• The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Stage
  • Two

• The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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  • Camera
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• For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

  

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• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Work

• You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?) (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • People
  • Respect
  • Regret

• Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out and you say 'How appropriate'

  

  Alanis Morissette
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• Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

  

  Mason Cooley

• In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.

  

  Barry Barish
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• In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • People

• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question
  • Hand
  • Theory

• You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

  

  Eric Brown