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When commentator Graham Norton asked Olly Alexander what advice he'd give acts based on his own experience in 2024, Alexander's reply was telling.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

By 1975 he was telling Ashbery, whose “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” was nearing publication, that the years 1956 to 1996 would be remembered as the Age of Ashbery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

“The story I was telling myself limited what I thought I could have until somebody stepped in and said … Families look like all different things,” she shared.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Aftershocks filled me with terror, and I wondered if California was telling me I wasn’t welcome.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

“Name thing aside, if Rachel was telling the truth and Traveler intended that text for her—would it make a difference to you?”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows