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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

Topics: Around California Embarrassed Famous Famous People Felt Girl Hated Having People Photograph Shy Southern Southern California Taken

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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

Topics: Biological Children Dad He His Irrelevant Less Loved Me More Other Reality Than Three Treating Trivial

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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

Topics: Age Child Constant Families Feels Felt Important Important Thing Knew Learnt Loved Lucky Most Most Important Thing Never Problem Required Solving The Most Important Thing Unloved Which Wrote Young Young Age

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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

Topics: Accept Accessible Age Car Come Condition Crash Fall Four Good Good Luck Idea Losing Luck Mother Place Readily Required

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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

Topics: Also American Been Character Comforted Dogged England English Familiar Feeling Lives Me Occupied Other Outsider People Right Seemed Self Sense Should Space Supporting Where Which

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: August 26th, 1964

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