Samantha Shannon Quotes

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

Samantha Shannon

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• It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Me
  • Judging

• But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Real
  • Done
  • Me

• You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Me
  • Best
  • Tea

• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Star

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Success
  • Me
  • Sad

• You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Money
  • Free
  • Always

• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Me
  • Smart

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Eye
  • Human

• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Deliberately

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

  

  Tony Hillerman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Smart

• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Pain

• If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Trying

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Me
  • Listening
  • Old

• I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books