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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I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
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Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
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I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.
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My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.
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It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.
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In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
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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.