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SARA SHERIDAN The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kind...
SARA SHERIDAN I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month be...
SARA SHERIDAN It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly deroga...
SARA SHERIDAN My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an E...
SARA SHERIDAN Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the...
SARA SHERIDAN We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund H...
SARA SHERIDAN The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the...
SARA SHERIDAN A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof. – On Starlit Seas
SARA SHERIDAN She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom. – On Starlit S...
SARA SHERIDAN Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience...
SARA SHERIDAN A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk cau...
SARA SHERIDAN People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still ...
SARA SHERIDAN The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Pe...
SARA SHERIDAN My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't h...
SARA SHERIDAN The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bom...
SARA SHERIDAN There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting o...
SARA SHERIDAN I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.
SARA SHERIDAN He prefers his adventures second hand.
SARA SHERIDAN He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewh...
SARA SHERIDAN His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears – the wide...
SARA SHERIDAN Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first tim...
SARA SHERIDAN He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep ki...
SARA SHERIDAN Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.
SARA SHERIDAN The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for co...
SARA SHERIDAN Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p...
SARA SHERIDAN I always fancied myself in a Ford convertible with the roof down – if we ever get a sunny day. Rac...
SARA SHERIDAN I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them f...
SARA SHERIDAN It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not...
SARA SHERIDAN The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child - coming downstairs in the morning ...
SARA SHERIDAN It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse trader...
SARA SHERIDAN There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He’d heard that she kept her head ...
SARA SHERIDAN A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writin...
SARA SHERIDAN It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer...
SARA SHERIDAN The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.
SARA SHERIDAN History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
SARA SHERIDAN It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse trader...
SARA SHERIDAN Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
SARA SHERIDAN I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and pa...
SARA SHERIDAN So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he...
SARA SHERIDAN When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if s...
SARA SHERIDAN I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express our...
SARA SHERIDAN I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress...
SARA SHERIDAN I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’

SARA SHERIDAN It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your dista...
SARA SHERIDAN The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. – On Starlit...
SARA SHERIDAN Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.
SARA SHERIDAN Mirabelle? Mirabelle Bevan? Well, I’ll be blowed!”
Mirabelle started, almost spilling her d...
SARA SHERIDAN Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands...
SARA SHERIDAN Today is the anniversary of my husband’s death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but...
SARA SHERIDAN There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in – a slice of home. If not unique ...
SARA SHERIDAN I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalue...
SARA SHERIDAN As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
SARA SHERIDAN Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who ...
SARA SHERIDAN I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one...
SARA SHERIDAN The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremel...
SARA SHERIDAN On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I los...
SARA SHERIDAN He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.
SARA SHERIDAN People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.
SARA SHERIDAN Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who ...
SARA SHERIDAN She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes be...
SARA SHERIDAN The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the black...
SARA SHERIDAN I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
SARA SHERIDAN I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my noteboo...
SARA SHERIDAN I believe the era of the militant lady is back.
SARA SHERIDAN Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
SARA SHERIDAN I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous...
SARA SHERIDAN There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.
SARA SHERIDAN Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institut...
SARA SHERIDAN The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland ...
SARA SHERIDAN Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p...
SARA SHERIDAN The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto ...
SARA SHERIDAN The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.
SARA SHERIDAN Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful cr...
SARA SHERIDAN Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’
In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’...
SARA SHERIDAN I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt.
SARA SHERIDAN There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that...
SARA SHERIDAN Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature
SARA SHERIDAN I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut t...
SARA SHERIDAN Women the world over suffer restrictions.
SARA SHERIDAN Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
SARA SHERIDAN Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there ...
SARA SHERIDAN The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed thro...
SARA SHERIDAN History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.
SARA SHERIDAN In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon ...
SARA SHERIDAN I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing p...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understandi...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometim...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a me...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies tha...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclu...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing &...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and in...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people y...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.
SHERIDAN SMITH I'm normally a burger and chips girl - such a cheap date.
SHERIDAN SMITH Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in ...
JAMEY SHERIDAN I've been so lucky with the people I've worked with, but I'm such a fan girl. When I mov...
SHERIDAN SMITH Acting didn't come and just clip me on the nose.
JAMEY SHERIDAN The Majors are the preachers, teachers and wisdom keepers, The Minors are your everyday highs, your ...
TONYA SHERIDAN My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. The...
JAMEY SHERIDAN As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Bab...
SHERIDAN SMITH I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same r...
SHERIDAN SMITH The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favou...
DINAH SHERIDAN To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the gen...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.
SHERIDAN SMITH Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you e...
ROB SHERIDAN I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.
SHERIDAN SMITH I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I thought city government was bad. It doesn't have anything on FEMA.
JIM SHERIDAN The kids were going insane, 50. I thought someone was going to get injured.
JIM SHERIDAN At the end of the movie people will wonder: Is this the real 50 Cent? Has he changed? Is he acting a...
JIM SHERIDAN It's kind of like Greek tragedy,
JIM SHERIDAN It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
JIM SHERIDAN There is no question it would have taken some of their luster away had we lost the base.
TONY SHERIDAN When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settle...
SHERIDAN SMITH Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lo...
DINAH SHERIDAN They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choic...
DINAH SHERIDAN 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtapos...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I just felt like I was getting some good looks. And our team is resilient. We never give up.
WILL SHERIDAN There's been not enough made out of the ripple effect that the casinos bring. It extends into indivi...
TONY SHERIDAN So we have a culture ? and one could say it's an advanced form of maritime culture ? that we've had ...
TONY SHERIDAN The loss of this base would have devastated Connecticut.
TONY SHERIDAN Despite all the good intentions of Electric Boat, they would have been looking at different options ...
TONY SHERIDAN When you think about it, there are a lot of coffee houses.
TONY SHERIDAN This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would yo...
MICHAEL SHERIDAN The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I felt pain in my neck after training on the Wednesday, but the England medical team felt I would be...
ANDREW SHERIDAN Julian's got a lot of experience and I am sure he will do a very good job.
ANDREW SHERIDAN It should be a great atmosphere. When the crowd's against you, you can really make use of it.
ANDREW SHERIDAN They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.
MICHELLE SHERIDAN Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brot...
SHERIDAN SMITH In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then s...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Eva was very jealous because she's dying to come and I actually think she's going to be here at the ...
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
DINAH SHERIDAN I think what they probably had was a couple of days (to get out). There are lots of skeletons but th...
MICHAEL SHERIDAN At first, there were not even 300 volunteers. They just kept hoping every year that it would get big...
MICHELLE SHERIDAN We were able to get them into foster homes within several hours.
CHELSEA SHERIDAN Tim yelled something and just took off.
MIKE SHERIDAN We could go bargain basement, with portable classrooms, but we felt this permanent building made mor...
SHERIDAN DOWLING After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look...
MIA SHERIDAN Why do you like show jumping?"
"... Beauty and excitement. The elements of trust, talent, train...
AINSLIE SHERIDAN Everybody was wearing bulletproof vests. But I've filmed in Belfast; you get used to it, you know? I...
JIM SHERIDAN I told my agent to not tell me about any offers - I didn't want to be tempted - so I didn't learn un...
DINAH SHERIDAN It disrupted a huge Bronze Age population.
MICHAEL SHERIDAN I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've liked rap music for 10, 15 years,
JIM SHERIDAN Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed weari...
SHERIDAN SMITH After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
DINAH SHERIDAN There's no secret about mine-to do another Genevieve with John, Ken and Kay!
DINAH SHERIDAN I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
DINAH SHERIDAN So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
DINAH SHERIDAN During the last week of location work out on the Yorkshire moors near Howarth, I learned that I had ...
DINAH SHERIDAN Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with deligh...
DINAH SHERIDAN They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
DINAH SHERIDAN I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you cou...
MIA SHERIDAN I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Monta...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN You can always walk up, but it's better to call ahead.
DEBBIE SHERIDAN It's just really an awesome experience.
DEBBIE SHERIDAN Now is the perfect time, when the weather isn't hot. We see hundreds of species of birds.
DEBBIE SHERIDAN We had each reacted differently in a moment of terror, and yet we both still hurt. Maybe there was n...
MIA SHERIDAN Last year, they came in and they were on top a lot and we were kind of the underdog. This year, I fe...
WILL SHERIDAN What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on th...
DINAH SHERIDAN I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.
SHERIDAN SMITH In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Tex...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for...
SHERIDAN SMITH Honest communication is a rare thing.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.
SHERIDAN SMITH It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre ab...
JAMEY SHERIDAN I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
DINAH SHERIDAN For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards wh...
SHERIDAN SMITH I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of th...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN You can't trust the internet.
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN Victoria sighed deeply as the clock tower bell chimed midnight.
Light snowflakes, almost weight...
CARRAGH SHERIDAN We are within striking distance of being one of the top three teams here, but it comes down to the s...
JAMES SHERIDAN I was real pleased with the never say die attitude. When you have that many placers it's a great acc...
JAMES SHERIDAN They were some disappointing semifinal rounds. But I was impressed with the kids. I was especially p...
JAMES SHERIDAN Jack was scrappy. He didn't stop and wrestled a hard-nosed match. He showed a lot of intestinal fort...
JAMES SHERIDAN Kyle Webster kind of got it going with a pin. In wrestling if you can get that momentum going it's h...
JAMES SHERIDAN