Craig Brown Quotes

When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

Craig Brown

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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Think
- Me
- College
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

Ralph Marston
- Want
- Problem
- Complexity
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Hannes Alfven
- People
- Believe
- Today
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Idina Menzel
- People
- Music
- Writing
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
- Long
- You
- Possible
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

A. E. Hotchner
- People
- World
- Women