Linda Grant Quotes

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

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• Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

  

  Dan Carter
  • People
  • Home
  • Looking

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
  • Question

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Service

• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Men
  • Mad

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fancies

• 'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Real

• That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • People
  • Trump
  • Racism

• First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Country

• I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

  

  Linda Grant
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying