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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."
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"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."
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"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
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"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."
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"I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all."
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"People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet."
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"We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car."
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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
Risk
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
Influence
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Science
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
Man
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
Death
"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."
Car
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
Imagination
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