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My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. Sara Sheridan
Family Confused World Mother Father Guilt Live Immediate Members Born More Uncles Over Identity Edinburgh Always Cousins Mix Been Aunts Subjected Childhood Form Which
I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix. Sara Sheridan
Cosmopolitan Mix Unique
I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi. Sara Sheridan
Food Soul Thought Out My Soul Always Sushi Turns
I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it was quite crazy, really. I'm just lucky that it came off. Sara Sheridan
Crazy Book Job Thought Everyone Write Throwing She Said Came Off Going Quite Just Really Lucky Her
One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don't want to think about, or can't say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act. Sara Sheridan
War Great People Great Things Think Back Say Secrets Signed About Come Terrible Because Did Official Done Want Fifties Act Many Things
We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that. Sara Sheridan
Woman Equality Live Every Society Know Genuine Experienced
There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors. Sara Sheridan
People Old Looking Research On And Off Ways London Comedies Household Off Getting Buses Interiors Many Even Watching
Writers are a product of where we come from, but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it. Sara Sheridan
Change Culture Looking Live Ways Hopefully Find Writers Come Alternatives Improve Where Which Product
I've always been fussier than I can afford to be. I don't just want to do whatever it takes to be successful, I want to do what I consider to be good stuff. If I'm not engaged in something, it doesn't matter what it is and who's doing it. Sean Biggerstaff
Good Matter Whatever Consider Something Takes Stuff Always Doing Been Than Afford Just Want Successful Engaged
Being a Scotsman, I wear a skirt quite a lot, but we're allowed. I have an incredibly loud Hawaiian shirt that's pink and a particularly disgusting turquoise, but I just wear it on days when I'm in a strange mood. Sean Biggerstaff
Strange Incredibly Mood Wear Hawaiian Allowed Days Particularly Pink Lot Loud Shirt Quite Quite A Lot Just Being Disgusting Turquoise Skirt
I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege. Sean Connery
Difficult Think Most Most Difficult Thing Privilege Just Displace Thing Difficult Thing
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that. Sean Connery
Life You Background About No Question Environment Question Your
Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world. Sean Connery
World Nothing Other Equal Scotland Than Nations Should Less
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points. Sean Connery
Good Character You Care Long Films About Points Had Him Cannot Happens Interest Connected Bond
I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer. Sean Connery
Day Every Day Swimming Every Bit Take Longer Get Trying Golf Again Little Little Bit Might Working Even Swing
There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems! Sean Connery
Me Problems Out Able He Between Major Sort Difference James James Bond Bond
Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else. Sean Connery
Good Else Worse Would Would-Be Perhaps Doing Anything Anything Else Good Actor Even Even Worse Actor
You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament. Sean Connery
You Wonderful Honestly Say Rather Open Tournament Know Won Wonderful Thing Golf Golf Tournament Awarded Thing Oscar
I've never kept a record of anything. Sean Connery
Record Never Anything Kept
If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film. Sean Connery
Me Out Would Indiana Indiana Jones Could Retirement Been Anything Film Pulled
I don't know anything about baseball. Sean Connery
About Know Anything Baseball
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. Sean Connery
School Having Had Qualifications Because Left Scotland Anything Navy
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland. Sean Connery
Percent Only Head Scotland Offices Owned Companies
There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. Sean Connery
Government People System Tory Seems Something Wrong Voted Democratic Been Years Scotland Where Socialist Hardly Fundamentally
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. Sean Connery
Good Man Old Face Else More More Than Anything Picasso Like Than Hitchcock Anything Anything Else Old Man
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. Sean Connery
Speak Wife Met Married Boring Through Involved French She Got Quickly Any Getting Golf Conversations Little Us Really English Why Playing Chance
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