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Laura Steven is an English novelist. She won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print prize for her novel The Exact Opposite of Okay . [1]
She has used comedy to explore feminist issues in her young adult novels, including an exploration of beauty, in Every Exquisite Thing , her re-telling of The Picture of Dorian Gray [2] and female rage in The Society For Soulless Girls , her re-telling of Jekyll and Hyde . [3]
Cary Grant was an English-American actor. He was known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. He was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, and was honored with an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named by American Film Institute the second greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood in 1999.
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"Girls don't want beauty. Girls want power. And sometimes beauty is the closest substitute."
"Girls don't want beauty. Girls want power. And sometimes beauty is the closest substitute."