Tina Brown Quotes

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

Some people call me arrogant and boo me but I love it, because at least they're buying tickets. Meanwhile, other people are thinking, 'wow, this guy's different, I'll come and see him again.'

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.

It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the right track. It is even better when they ignore me completely, like the Norwegian press does; that means they are really afraid.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

God is an iron... and that's a hot one.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.