Samantha Shannon Quotes
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
