Who is Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill (born 3 July 1959) is an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Her writing, which was described by The Observer in 2002 as "outrageously outspoken" and "usually offensive," has been the subject of legal action on several occasions. Burchill is also a novelist, and her 2004 novel Sugar Rush was adapted for television.Early life and education
Julie Burchill was born in Bristol and educated at Brislington Comprehensive School. Her father was a Communist union activist who worked in a distillery. Her mother had a job in a cardboard box factory. In 2010, Burchill wrote of her parents: "I don't care muc...
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- What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
- Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
- The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
- What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
- Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
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Spectator_life: 'to set out to entertain an audience shows respect – to ‘educate’ shows contempt. i can’t begin to imagine how awful david hare’s musical must have been – yet he sneers at the genius of oklahoma!' ✍️ julie burchillSpectator: 'to set out to entertain an audience shows respect – to ‘educate’ shows contempt. i can’t begin to imagine how awful david hare’s musical must have been – yet he sneers at the genius of oklahoma!' ✍️ julie burchill
The_fence_mag: with a fantastic julie burchill anecdote within
Lorna_tveditor: trying to recall a time when reporters have "joked" about princes george & louis & princess charlotte in this distasteful manner. i'm failing. from danny baker to julie burchill to robert jobson-the way harry and meghan's kids are dehumanised by members of our media revolts me.
Thequietus: 'reviewing the single for nme, julie burchill described robert smith as ‘trying to stretch a sketchy living out of moaning more meaningfully than man has ever moaned before.’' a is for a forest: simon price on the cure
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