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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Child Sunday Listen Would

I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.

Time Focus You Stop Chains My Own

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

Myself Saying Born Lucky United

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Feet Think You Your Wits About

Who's been loyal to a Kardashain?

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

Music People Selling Records Burning

I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.

Good Caring Luck Good Luck Personal

On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment.

Change Investment Chains Will Own

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

Time Parents Reading Because Books

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

Think You Movies More Years See

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Words You Cinema Emotions Difficult

Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?

Voice You Who Your Ever Needed

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Words Thought Language Artist Three

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