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Linda Grant Quotes

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 15, 1951

Topics

Proud Penguin Modern Classics Rows

I'm completely allergic to being politically correct.

Being Allergic Politically Correct

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

Jennifer Coolidge

People You Say More People Say Up

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

Champion Horse You Wrong Go Race

I never thought acting would be a realistic job for me. Because, quite frankly, I didn't see people who looked like me doing it. I quickly realized, that's all the more reason to try.

Job People Me Thought Doing Acting

You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

Positive Attitude Challenges You Way

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Women Think Point Up Must I Think

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.

Yourself Wall Nobody Seriously Why

I have a background in theater - I went to school for theater. I love film - love it - but there's just something about theater that I really miss.

Love School Miss Something Film

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

People First Over Next Years Died

Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Positive Nature Adversity Journey Me

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

America Early Moral Kind More Panic

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

Character You She Tell Things Her

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