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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.
Alice Eve
Day
Character
Age
Every Day
Remember
Three
Shoes
Every
Thinking
Says
Out
Carry
Wear
Dressed
Coloured
Perfectly
Got
Go
Normal
Pink
Umbrella
Different
Realise
Used
Dad
Now
Two
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
Alice Hoffman
Time
You
Writing
Faster
Only
Write
Well
Learn
Stop
After
While
Much
Certain
Use
Your
Now
Amount
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
Alice Hoffman
Work
Time
Too Much
Free
Gone
Older
Too
Bit
Find
Free Time
Around
Ironically
Quite
Quite A Bit
Children
Much
Now
Harder
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
Alice Lowe
Cinema
Amazing
Criticism
Characters
Find
Classics
Only
Had
Studied
He
Von
Doing
Exist
Person
Gets
Really
Now
Loads
We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad'... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.
Alice Lowe
Dark
Too
Dramas
Out
TV
Bad
Idea
Like
Sophisticated
Because
Dexter
Comic
Came
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Them
Then
Many
Originally
Elements
Now
Things
Rejected
The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
Alice McDermott
Me
Poet
Think
Out
Memoir
Inside
Inside-Out
Rather
Somewhat
Outside
Uncover
Look
Surface
Leaves
Than
Fiction
Frustrated
Even
Now
Thing
Need
No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
Alice McDermott
Great
You
Writing
Baby
Says
Must
Something
No-One
Looks
Going
Us
Really
Novelist
Now
Start
Need
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
Alice Munro
Life
People
Writing
Past
Bit
Ways
Cities
Kind
Would
More
Suppose
Sure
Were
Different
In The Past
Now
Aware
Different Ways
Starting
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice Munro
Me
You
Change
Writing
Seriously
Thought
Trouble
First
Nothing
Think
Books
Has-Been
Besides
More
Writer
Troubles
Taken
Wishing
Until
Wrote
Were
Been
Lot
Five
Than
Short
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Used
Novel
Now
Kept
When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.
Alice Munro
Life
You
Mother
Compassion
Young
Older
Would
See
Somehow
Disabled
Feel
Got
How
Being
Cannot
Conquer
Now
Imagine
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.
Alice Oswald
Me
You
People
Slow
Reading
Way
Totally
Something
Poem
Through
Read
Get
Just
Different
Tune
Which
Straight
Meaning
Used
Novels
Now
Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.
Alice Ripley
Mother
Long
Pain
Kids
Long Line
Come
Also
Understand
Line
Being
Choice
Now
I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it.
Alice Temperley
You
Celebrate
Care
About
Being
Frustrated
Really
Should
Used
Bohemian
Now
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice Walker
Me
Culture
Women
Words
Word
Black
Organic
Correctly
Out
See
Spirit
Like
Does
Feminist
Just
Really
Describe
Expresses
Now
Things
Need
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.
Alice Walker
Time
Nature
World
Organic
Think
Tree
Blackberry
Self
Feel
Particular
Like
Metaphor
Pine
Lot
Just
Being
Experiences
Happens
Again
Bush
Producing
Use
Express
Now
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice Walker
Government
Suffering
People
Confused
World
Power
Various
Parties
Caused
Politically
Movements
Much
Now
Right
I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'
Alice Walker
Democracy
Respect
Now
Black Lives Matter, as a network, will not, does not, has not, ain't going to endorse any candidates. Now if there are activists within the movement that want to do that independently, they should feel free, and if that's what makes sense for their local conditions, that's fantastic.
Alicia Garza
Matter
Will
Black
Free
Sense
Local
Independently
Network
Feel
Within
Makes
Does
Conditions
Any
Going
Endorse
Candidates
Movement
Want
Fantastic
Should
Activists
Now
Lives
I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.
Alicia Sacramone
Love
Fear
Think
Once
Relaxed
Solid
Kind
Would
Running
Hated
Table
Object
Could
Vault
Had
Nobody
Over
Like
Terrified
Because
Got
Normal
Just
Want
Literally
Just Kind
Which
Really
Now
Fast
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
Alija Izetbegovic
Racism
Complicated
Strong
Three
Country
Nationalism
Others
State
Those
Out
Religions
Bosnia
Supposed
Make
Lot
Nations
Them
Now
Two
I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.
Aliko Dangote
Time
You
Property
People
Car
Too Much
Trouble
Own
Too
Too Much Time
Everywhere
Stay
Atlanta
Had
Takes
Like
Call
Lot
Up
Them
Much
Used
Now
Homes
Two
In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'
Alison Goldfrapp
Path
Slow
Think
Way
Rather
Very
Even
Even Now
Found
Now
Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.
Alison Jackson
Religion
Experience
Own
Stars
Once
Status
Through
Taken
Look
Provide
Celebrity
Achieved
Transcendental
Us
Holy
Now
It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
Alison McGhee
Girl
Cute
Think
Would
Only
Look
Am
Very
Grade
Short
Just
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Little
Height
Cool
Now
I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working.
Alison Mosshart
Age
Seems
Something
Knock
Know
Always
Want
Gonna
Creating
Working
Certainly
Help
Now
Why
There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
Alison Moyet
Time
Me
People
First
See
First Time
Lot
Artist
Who
Now
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