Samantha Shannon Quotes
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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It rots a writer’s brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you’re well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.
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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
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'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
