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Anna Benson Quotes

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: american
Birth: February 12, 1976

Topics

Me You Want More Tell Something

Number one is my faith, number two my family, number three is my friends, and number four, my fans.

Family Faith Friends Three Two Fans

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

History Book Landscape Write Things

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Mother Home Me Scary Always Things

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.

Time Growing Up Writing Reading Hard

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

Experience Day People Ideas World

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.

Life Voice My Life Early Imagine

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

School Me Public School Musician

I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote 'The Dark Knight' with Chris, his brother. He wrote 'The Prestige,' the story for 'Memento.'

Brother Story Strong Dark Class Who

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

Myself Find Admire Try Listen Just

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

American Dream American You Dream Go

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

Writing Situation Now Right Out

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.

Moments Back Go Up Things Just

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