"Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be."

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Jane Alison

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“People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.”
“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself”
“I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.”
“How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?”
“Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.”
“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”
“My family is very traditional, Catholic.”

Source : "Spanglish Actress Talent Translates Well". Interview with Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. December 12, 2004.
“The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone. Be conscious of what you are thinking so you can always think positively. Do everything that you do for the love of doing it. If you devote yourself, your time and your energy to following these rules, have no doubt - you cannot lose!”

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