Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston
Allegra Hustonis an English writer and editor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 August 1964
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Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
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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.
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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.
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When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
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I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
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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.
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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.
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With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.
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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.