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Alexandra Bracken Quotes

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

Alexandra Bracken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1987

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Life My Life Minds Darkest Where

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Together People Youth Get Together

I remember him reading 'Sleeping Beauty,' and he would play the score by Tchaikovsky as he read it. We'd also read 'Winnie the Pooh,' and, you know, those probably that he most often read me were 'Beatrix Potter' books, 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck' and 'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.' I still have at least 15 of them.

Beauty Me Reading Remember You Play

I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

Think Person Stealing Different

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

Work People World You Opera Decide

I've got more creative control when I do music.

Music Creative Control More Got

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Mother House Now Difficult Maintain

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Business Writing Book Racing Horse

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

Question Artists Must Cannot How

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

People Influence You Your Around

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Mother Child Thought Single Even

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

Life Romantic I Am Me Confused Know

I think there are people who are born storytellers. I think of someone like T. C. Boyle or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I think really, without putting any pejorative on it, they're like carnival barkers, 'Come into the tent, and I'll tell you this story.'

People Story Think Someone You Born

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