Linda Smith

Person · Open Library

Works

94

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1958

Active to

2006

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

40,106

Total plays

248,263

There are at least two artists named Linda Smith: 1. Linda Helen Smith was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer 2. Linda Smith is a female singer songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland 1. Linda Helen Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer. She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. She met her partner, Warren Lakin, at university, and they were together for nearly 30 years unt

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 48,689x

2. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 42,311x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,569x

4. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

   · 2015 · cited 25,387x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,501x

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Quotes

• “If God wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist.”
• “People knock ASBOs but you have to bear in mind they are the only qualification some of these kids are going to get.”
• “As Linda drifted in and out of consciousness, her fellow comedian Mark Steel noticed Joan Collins on the television. “I was on a chat show with Joan Collins,” he told fellow comedian Andy Hamilton. "How old is she?" Hamilton asked. "I think she must be close to 75," replied Steel. From beneath the pile of bedclothes a little voice piped up: “How much is that in human years?””
• “[Of a recipe for Chilli Con Carne] English people may like to substitute a sponge cake at this point. (Series 1, Episode 6)”
• “Gordon Jackson! (throughout)”
• “Paul Merton: (on the subject of people wearing bow-ties) People wear bow-ties because it's show-business, isn't it? I mean there's Bernard Manning there. I mean, obviously he is in show-business, and Neil Hamilton desperately would like to be in show-business. But that's the idea isn't it?Linda Smith: I don't really like you saying his name, because it gives him the oxygen of publicity and I'm not happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Linda

Family name

Smith

Gender

female

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Erith

Place of death

London

Occupation

screenwriter

Languages spoken

English language

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