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8 quotes by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Montreal, Quebec. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was selected as a "pick" for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. She received the Governor General's Award for...
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Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or... →

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I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

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'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.

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You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

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I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so... →

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I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium... →

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In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as... →

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Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book.... →

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