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Cynthia Payne

"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."

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Donna Grant

"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

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Donna Grant

"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

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Donna Grant

"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

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Donna Grant

"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

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Donna Grant

"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."

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Donna Grant

"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."

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Donna Grant

"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."

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Donna Grant

"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."

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Donna Grant

"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."

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Donna Grant

"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"

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Cynthia Payne
"I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement."

Excitement

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Cynthia Payne
"It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring."

Life

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Cynthia Payne
"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."

Research

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Cynthia Payne
"If men want sex they'll find it."

Men

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Cynthia Payne
"Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael."

Film

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Cynthia Payne
"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."

Folk

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Cynthia Payne
"I always seemed to fall in love with policemen."

Love

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Cynthia Payne
"Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?"

Work

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Cynthia Payne
"Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws."

Change

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Cynthia Payne
"My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in."

Sex

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