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Jane Gardam Quotes

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: July 11, 1928

Topics

Life Country Sometimes More English

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Problems Debate More Active System

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

Life Politics Waiting Me Rest Back

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Science Mystery Influences Show Many

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

Love Me Interesting Lose Quest Get

Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years.

School People Grades Place Same

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

School Graduation High School My Own

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

Information Need Handle Who Jumble

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

Son Bad Company Kid Excited Because

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

You Back Nothing Being Something

I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.

Cornelia Parker

Car Rain Driving Doing Fast Serious

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Human Always Social Human Beings Our

I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

Work Business Time Job Work Hard

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