Craig Brown Quotes
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
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My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
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If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
