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Ann Cleeves Quotes

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1954

Topics

Short Seventies Lived Useful Been

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

Mother Home Child Electricity She

Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature.

Football Think You Mature I Think

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Work Best You Difficult Most

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

Feel Doing You Actor Always Years

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

Sophie Kinsella

Book First Own Because Publish

You learn to judge your friends for who they are.

Learn Judge Friends You Who Your

I release my scoops strategically.

Release Strategically

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.

Music Unique Happen Things Us Movie

If I could afford to live in London I would.

Live London If I Could Would Afford

I happen to love Saint-Saens in general. I think he's a brilliant composer and sometimes underrated in a way because people like to pass him off as fluffy and not being serious.

Love People Think Serious Sometimes

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.

Yourself Performance You Bad Play

We never think about how many awards we've won. We just want to make the best music we can.

Music Best Think Want Never Awards

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