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'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Editing Experience Few First Had Just Less More More Or Less Much New New Yorker Really Serious Suggestions Yorker

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While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Been Besides Books Change First Five Kept Lot Me More Nothing Novel Now Seriously Short Short Stories Stories Taken Than Think Thought Trouble Troubles Until Used Were While Wishing Working Writer Writing Wrote You I Think

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'American Psycho' reminds me of my track in 'Tommy,' my first Broadway show. It's similar conceptually and has that rock n' roll streak.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: American Broadway Broadway Show First Me Psycho Reminds Rock Rock N Roll Roll Show Similar Streak Tommy Track

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'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Broadway Broadway Show Excited Excitement Feel First Foot Get His How Know Long More Pause Room Show Singing Sitting Surpass Tapping Than The Who Tommy Top Who World You

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I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Atlanta College First Girl Good-Looking He Many Met Over Professor Tall Year

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We should not look down on our first ancestors.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Ancestors Down First Look Our Should

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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

~Alice Walker

Topics: College Did First Friends Friendship Loved Loyal Made Mattered Me Our Understood Were White Women

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When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Buying Day Everywhere Existed Fell First Food French Fresh Fresh Food Love Markets Obsession Often Paris Restaurants Small Then Twice Twice A Day Well

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Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That's what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.

~Alice Waters

Topics: About Dish Easy Everything Fall Fell First Food France Happened Just Love Me More Than Then Very Well You

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First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Also Bakery Become Begin Dirt First Food Get Grow Hands Involved Kids Own Production Should Stimulated Things Way

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