Samantha Shannon Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
Washed Out
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
Pamela Anderson
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
Patrick Ness
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
Ian Hecox
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
Jack Ma
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
Gary Lineker
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
Naomi Klein
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
Ted Cruz
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I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.
Edward Eggleston
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
Dan Gertler
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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
Beth Gutcheon
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For me, just being published feels like success.
Samantha Shannon
