Annalena McAfee famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.
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I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.
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My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.
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My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!
-- Annalena McAfee
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
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Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.
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I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
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When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
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Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
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Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them
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