Quotes by Allegra Huston - Page 1

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Admire
Bigs
Spirit
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If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Scraps
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When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Father
Firsts
Real
Terrified
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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Girl
California
Embarrassed
Photograph
Southern California
Taken
Famous People
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I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Dad
Children
Irrelevant
Reality
Biological
Treating
Trivial
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I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Ancestry
Italian
Thrown
Dash
Pinch
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Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Daughter
Anyone Else
Identified
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I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Sister
Inferiority
Rise Above
Sorry
Rise
Mention
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Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Admire
Drama
Generous
Important
Past
Spirit
Waste
Big
Sucked
Waste Time
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When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Sister
Shuffle
Tired
Family Age Me
Brother And Sister
Claimed
Houses
Instantly
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Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Crash
Good Luck
Losing
Accessible
Condition
Readily
Required
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The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Age
Children
Constant
Important
Unloved
Young Age
Important Thing
Learnt
Most Important Thing
Required
Solving
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What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Grateful
Stability
Unstable
Relationship I Am Me
Relationship Me I Am
Fathers
Impose
Neither
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I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
Allegra Huston / Writer
Familiar
Comforted
Dogged
Occupied
Seemed
Supporting
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