Craig Brown Quotes
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my father was singing a little doo-wop.
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Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
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If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
