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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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.
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We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.
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Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
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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.
