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.'

Samantha Shannon

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• I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

  

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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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• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

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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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• When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

  

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• I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

  

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• I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it.

  

  Keke Palmer
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• So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

  

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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.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Brother
  • Sex
  • Season