Timothy Noah Quotes

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

I make films about working class people.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

Only the elites despise earning money.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

‘The laboring poor’ is a detestable, canting phrase.