Penelope Gilliatt

Person · Open Library

Born

25 March 1932

Died

9 May 1993

Works

21

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

   · 2013 · cited 8,580x

2. Politeness

   · 1987 · cited 8,502x

3. UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023

   · 2022 · cited 6,771x

4. UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

   · 2020 · cited 6,041x

5. Pfam: the protein families database

   · 2013 · cited 5,567x

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Quotes

• “It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong tree.”
• “People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.”
• “Filmmaking has now reached the same stage as sex—it’s all technique and no feeling.”
• “Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.”
• “A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.”
• “Boston is one of the few American cities that regrets the past...Boston's like England. Up to its ears in yellowing photographs.”

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