Alethea Kontis Quotes
Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.

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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
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I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
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Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.
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I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.
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Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.