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My daughters are both funny and smart and lots of fun. They play lacrosse, soccer, musical instruments, like to cook with me, and are naturals in the swimming pool. Honestly, though, what I like doing most with them is eating. I've worked really hard to make sure they are willing to try all sorts of different foods. Alexi Zentner

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If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about. Alexi Zentner

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No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are. Alexis Wright

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The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way. Alexis Wright

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I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years. Alexis Wright

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My world has been quite rich in my life, and I've been happy. I've no regrets. Alexis Wright

Life Happy World My Life Rich Has-Been No Regrets Been Quite Regrets

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again. Alexis Wright

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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. Alfred Einstein

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alfred Einstein

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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. Alfred Jarry

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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. Alfred Jarry

Beauty Every Monster Blending Call Inexhaustible Any Conventional Original Elements

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. Alfred Jarry

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. Alfred Jarry

Silence Believe Kind Only Counts Applause

The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred de Musset

Love Return Makes Farewell

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. Alfred de Musset

Cause Understand Always Sensation English Among Things

And so with all things: names were vital and important. Algernon Blackwood

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It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come. Algernon Blackwood

Little Things Come Pierce Years Burn Little Things

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. Algernon Blackwood

In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take. Ali Smith

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up. Ali Smith

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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day. Ali Smith

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.' Ali Smith

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