Craig Brown Quotes
It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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Playing in front of your home crowd, they can almost be like the best sixth man in the league, especially being in Boston.
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The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
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A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.
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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
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Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.
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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
