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Tina Brown

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British-American journalist, talk-show host, and author

Person · Open Library

Works
38

Top works

  • Mr. Duck
  • Monster from down the Hall
  • Misfit Platypus
  • Elephant Named Ed
  • Learn Korean with Ian

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1933-05-03
Active to
2006-12-25
blueschristmas musicdiscofilm soundtrackfunkrhythm & blues

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
70
Total plays
903

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hip-rock

With so many artists out there how does one girl set herself apart? What makes her different? How can she stand out? With a new sound called Hip-Rock and songs with titles like “Vodka and Tequila”... It might grab your attention. From a young age Tina was a natural performer as well as an athlete. But it wasn’t until the first time she sang on a stage in front of 500 people that she realized what she wanted to do with her life. From that moment on a dedication to pursuing her dream began.” I rem

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Quotes

  • I had to admit I liked him hughly. He was in an American country gentleman's three-piece suit and heavy shoes, and was by turns urbane and shady. His face seems to have been made for the cartoonist's distortion the gargoyle lips, deep furrows in the brow, the hint of five o'clock shadow that gives him such an underworld air when he's sunk in thought.
  • The truth is that, although he'll be trouble, he'll also be enormous fun and H. has had so many years of Thomson greyness this vivid rascal could brine back some of the jokes. "I sacked the best editor of the News of the World," he said at one point. "He was too nasty even for me. [[w:Bernard Shrimsley|[Bernard] Shrimslev]] had to ask himself what the ordinary man wanted to read that week. Stafford Somerfield knew!"
  • Large, blond, and ebullient in his well-tailored suits, my father filled a room with his commanding height and broken nose.
  • When did Britain go out of its mind? As a transplant from London to New York, I'm often asked that question.
  • The last hard patriotic triumph in most Brit's recall was Margaret Thatcher's 1982 invasion of an obscure dot in the South Atlantic, the Falkland Islands, to wrest it back from another country no one has time to read about, Argentina.
  • Unlikely heroes and anti-heroes emerged. A viral favorite was John Bercow, the barrel-chested Speaker of the House of Commons, whose calls for "Order, Order Order" over the brawling MPs have sound-tracked the opposite of his exhortation.

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date of birth
1953-11-21
Commons category
Christina Brown
social media followers
96769
affiliation string
Newsweek and The Daily Beast
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