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I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Arts Arts Education Centre Creative Desperately Difficulty Drama Education Equipment Getting Going Kids Need Schools See University World I See

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The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Against Down Life Pin Things Try Us Which Work

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You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Bigger Close Cross Day Divides Down End Every Every Day Going Holds Know Live Lives Make Never Open Our Our Lives Rather Sit Smaller Something Than Them Thing Things Those Up Which Write You

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There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Also Given Lives Make Our Our Lives Path Point Take Us Which

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I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Buy Detriment Items Jackets Like Need Other Really Tend Them

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I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Been Happy Long Nothing Sure Working

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I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.'

~Ali Smith

Topics: Beautiful Being Decide Dress Else Esteemed Given Her Honor Internationally Literary Met Party Pink Said She Wear Wearing Writer

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I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'

~Ali Smith

Topics: Get Good Harmonica Instruments Long Most Musical Oh Out Quite Tune

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The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About Ask Beings Contradictory Human Human Beings Massively More Multiple One Thing Quickly Selves Than Thing Us World

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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