Allegra's Quotes

#1. Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. He pulls the tape off Allegra's mouth. Grabs her BY THE HAIR and gives her a peck on the lips.

Richard Kadrey

#3. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Allegra Goodman

#4. What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

Allegra Huston

#5. When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

Allegra Huston

#6. What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

Allegra Versace

#7. Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Allegra Goodman

#8. I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

Allegra Huston

#9. Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Allegra Huston

#10. She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melancholy agnostic, but the optimistic kind. She liked to give God the benefit of the doubt.

Allegra Goodman

#11. Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but - this was the dirty secret - you needed luck.

Allegra Goodman

#12. I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

Allegra Huston

#13. Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Allegra Huston

#14. Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

Allegra Huston

#15. I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Allegra Huston

#16. I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

Allegra Huston

#17. I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

Allegra Versace

#18. We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.

Allegra Goodman

#19. Vidocq and Allegra are holding hands on the small bed. I don't need to listen to their hearts or breathing. They're radiating tension like a microwave oven. Kasabian has gone back to his computer, trying to ignore all of this. Traven looks a little lost. Candy's not much better. I

Richard Kadrey

#20. I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I'm not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don't want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.

John Leguizamo

#21. The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.

Allegra Goodman

#22. My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

Allegra Versace

#23. If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

Allegra Versace

#24. Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Allegra Goodman

#25. When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.

Allegra Huston

#26. I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

Allegra Huston

#27. You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."
Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?

Melissa De La Cruz

#28. Apology accepted. If you're finished Mrs. Porter ---"
"Allegra."
"Fine. If you're finished, Allegra, I'd like to go."
"I'm not."
Good Lord, but the woman was a blister that refused to pop.

Chris Karlsen

#29. I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.

Allegra Huston

#30. I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.
'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.
'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.

Allegra Goodman

#31. Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Allegra Goodman

#32. A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

Allegra Versace

#33. With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

Allegra Huston

#34. If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Allegra Huston

#35. I don't tell many people my last name.

Allegra Versace

#36. The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

Allegra Huston

#37. She'd [Allegra] look like Foxy Brown's little sister, except her head is SHAVED SMOOTH.

Richard Kadrey

#38. Deciphering the rabbit warren that made up the minds of most women was never his strong suit. All he could do was ask for clarification. "Allegra, are you flirting with me?"
Her thumb stopped its stroking. "Um, yes. Am I not doing it right?

Chris Karlsen

#39. How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.

Allegra Goodman

#40. She will replace us all soon. And you, you'll be back to yourself, as scarred and lined as Lucifer's scrotum." What can you say to that? I hold up my glass. "To the devil's balls." Allegra

Richard Kadrey

#41. But even if we're together, it will only kill Jack." -Sky
"If he will take the risk to be with you, who are you to tell him what to do with his life?" -Allegra

Melissa De La Cruz

#42. All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent

#43. People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,

Allegra Goodman