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Naomi Alderman Quotes

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Science Loved Science Fiction Always

My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

John Bradley-West

Time School Comedy Long Acting Said

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

People Go Try Away Move Like

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

Remember Acting Party Way Playing

I'm not that interesting of a person.

Steven Rodney McQueen

Interesting Person

Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Support Saying Conquer Political You

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

Change People Think Say They Say

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Time First Time First Him Soldier

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

Mother Fall Actor Celebrity She Her

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Friend Book Story Language Landscape

Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

Aggressive More Maybe

Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs.

Time Fun Child Parents Remember

Education liberates a woman.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Education Woman Liberates

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