Samantha Shannon Quotes
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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People take things so seriously.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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It i.e., his look held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
