Will Brown
Will Brown
ballet break dancer fell love mum trained
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.
side
I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed from that side when I do emotional close-ups in 'Downton.'
kinds music skin underneath
I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.
together work
It's a challenging time, ... and we all just work together with this.
dig expose period scary sort
It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
best uncertain
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
calling countrymen field giving hold hopes invention literature mirror natural open
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
against appealing approach dear hopeful pass pointing rather reassure saw sweet trembling
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
against art bent follow good man morality nature offend provided rules
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
prescribed
I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
fellowship life lounge medium trying
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
happiness ourselves purpose
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
memorable men salvation
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
slavery aristocratic
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.