Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire. Allegra Huston More Quotes by Allegra Huston More Quotes From Allegra Huston 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 important drama past I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people. Allegra Huston california girl taken 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 important age children 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 real father firsts I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children. Allegra Huston dad children reality 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 someone child look love 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 myself sister mother sorry 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 american see myself mother If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have. Allegra Huston hold you rebel security 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 i-am me grateful relationship With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families. Allegra Huston me important drama two 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 myself think dad daughter 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 good car age mother 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 me family brother age 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 me self character people
