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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It's better to do a film that works.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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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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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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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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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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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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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.
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The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.
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Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking.
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I always wear high heels.
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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.
