Linda Grant Quotes
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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Working Wardrobes needs plus-size clothing donations to help women and men feel confident on their journey to finding a job. This is what we need in today's world - to lift people up - and Working Wardrobes is doing that.
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Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.
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He comes from a brainy Cork family.
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When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
