Samantha Shannon Quotes
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
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You've got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself up the leaderboard and show people that you're there and you're ready to win.
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As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: 'they recognize what they already think and know.'
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If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
