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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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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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
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I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.
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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.
