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You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Being Complicated Connection Difficult Good Him Intense Lifelong Love Love Is Mate Someone Way Without You

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I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: About Around Attention Been Being Books Honesty Humour Look Me Much Pay Pay Attention Talk Talked Then Way I Can

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The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

~Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Topics: About Behind Being Chef Cold Forget Full Full Time Go Go Home Hardest Hardest Thing Home Item Leaving Menu Night Order Over Produce Some Sweat The Hardest Thing Thing Time Toss Turn Up Wake Wake Up Work

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I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Act Action Agency Allowing Being Change Choosing Give Interested Passivity Rather Really Situation Sort Submission Than Type You

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I don't really buy the death-drive thing too literally; it feels overly neat and convenient. But I am suspicious of fighting back being the dominant model for cinematic conflict and personal conflict and political conflict.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Am Back Being Buy Cinematic Conflict Convenient Dominant Feels Fighting Literally Model Neat Overly Personal Political Really Suspicious Thing Too I Am

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Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Activities Admitted Another Available Being Boast Cappella Come Does Dozen Faith Fun Groups Harvard Just More Nearly Person Range Religious Same Students Than Those Vein Who Wide Wide Range

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It's not that Millennials don't believe some things are serious. We'll make 'It Gets Better' videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Being Believe Better Comedy Disaster Earnest Gets Importance Lives Make Millennials Never Our Our Lives Perform Phrase Relief Serious Some Some Things Sum Things Too Up Videos

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Awkward is a state of being.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Awkward Being State

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Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Adult After Being Being Different Better Changes Different Explains Gets Graduation Off Pay School Sometime Students Tell Them Why Will World

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Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

~Alexandra Stoddard

Topics: Being Best Bring Daughters Grandchildren Grandmother Joy Life Me Mother Multiply My Life

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