Clive Sinclair
Clive Sinclair
Sir Clive Marles Sinclairis an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 July 1940
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My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.
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As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.
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Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
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For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.
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Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
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I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.
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I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
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One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.
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Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures.
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When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
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You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
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At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.