Quotes by Laurie Graham

About Laurie Graham:

Laurie Graham is a Canadian downhill skier who represented Canada at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics. She won six World Cup victories and three National Downhill titles in her eleven years on the National Ski Team. She was the first North American woman to win a World Cup Super Giant Slalom skiing. She was the first North American to win on home soil at Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. In addition, Graham posted 34 top 10 FIS World Cup Downhill results.
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It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...

Laurie Graham

You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.

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As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Laurie Graham

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

Laurie Graham

My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.

Laurie Graham

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.

Laurie Graham

I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.

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Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

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In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

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I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

Laurie Graham

Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

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The wheels of publishing never slow down.

Laurie Graham

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

Laurie Graham

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.

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I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.

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My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.

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None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

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With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

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I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

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Author Bio

  • NameLaurie Graham
  • DescriptionCanadian alpine skier
  • BornMarch 30, 1960
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Alpine Skier
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of Canada