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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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
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One day, I hope to have a pot bellied pig and a wombat as pets.
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There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
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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.
