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The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

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I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

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Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.

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Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

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Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

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Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.

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To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

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The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 16th, 1961

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