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Mary A. Ward

"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."

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Donna Grant

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

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Donna Grant

"I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon."

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Donna Grant

"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."

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Donna Grant

"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."

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Donna Grant

"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."

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Donna Grant

"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."

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Donna Grant

"30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me."

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Donna Grant

"I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me."

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Mary A. Ward
"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."

Art

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Mary A. Ward
"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."

Books

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Mary A. Ward
"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."

Marriage

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Mary A. Ward
"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."

Years

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Mary A. Ward
"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."

Rank

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Mary A. Ward
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."

Life

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Mary A. Ward
"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."

Woman

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Mary A. Ward
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."

Education

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Mary A. Ward
"Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879."

Son

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Mary A. Ward
"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."

Conscience

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