The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.


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We had pretty high hopes and there was a lot of pressure on us to take medals. It's difficult when y...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
She has magic knees. I think it's a miracle she's already racing, and she did a good job.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
She was really one of the girls I would have said would win a medal.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
I had a good run, especially on the upper part of the course, but Michaela was just too strong.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
It was really on the limit today. One of my teammates got hurt, but I don't think it was too dangero...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
We all know everyone was not competing in the same conditions.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
Today I had a lot of confidence. I took it pretty relaxed. I think it's priceless to start a season ...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER
Thinking about how much they sacrifice amazes me.
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR
With my whole family, it's always been about community service and helping others before helping you...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR
I can't believe that this much has happened. I thought when I got the Oakland County resolution that...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR
You do not need to support the war going on in Iraq, but please realize that our troops do much more...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR
We have a Veterans Day and Memorial Day, but we don't have a day for the troops that are fighting ri...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR
We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV it was all too post-post-m...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
I am so glad we got that guy - I just want to give him a big, wet smooch. I'm so grateful. He's the ...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
That was when the alarm began to be ratcheted up,
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV - it was all too post-post...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV--it was post-postmodern,
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV. That seemed a little bit,...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV â€â�...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
Boswell Wide Awake.
ALEXANDRA DAY
The children keep growing up on me. I have to keep getting new babies.
ALEXANDRA DAY
I was pretty sure when we made the first 'Carl' book that we had a good idea, but I couldn't have im...
ALEXANDRA DAY
especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge.
ALEXANDRA DAY
I don't think I've ever played in a golf tournament with so many people rooting against me. It's har...
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN
Winning, to be included with all those legends, would be a great honor.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN
I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN
I would like to thank my new friend. She has taught me never to give up.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN
Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our ...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS
To sober up seems to many like making life “so serious,” as if seriousness precluded joy, warmth...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS
I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES
Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the conce...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO
Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. ...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS
Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help t...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm v...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO
Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: in...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your famil...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!
ALEXANDRA PAUL
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we coo...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI
When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD
You betcha. If I get to punch a manic, lanky jerk in the face, my night will be complete.” I gave ...
ALEXANDRA MARTIN
But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, be...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS
I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ra...
ALEXANDRA PETRI