Samantha Shannon Quotes
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Homelessness–it’s not about not having a home. It’s about something being seriously fucking wrong.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
