Craig Brown Quotes
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.Craig Brown
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
Malin Akerman -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre -
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
Idina Menzel -
I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
Maggie Rowe -
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
Daniel Cormier -
It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek -
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles -
I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
Tamara Tunie -
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
C. S. Lewis
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
Victoria Justice -
I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
Andy Richter -
We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.
Kanye West -
The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
Gary Locke -
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
Tabitha Soren -
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
Craig Brown