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Samantha Shannon Quotes

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

Samantha Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: November 8, 1991

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Book Think Plan Down Achieve Know

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Angus Deaton

Life Time Money People Worry Enough

I didn't grow up listening to him - my parents listened more to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell - but I lived in a flatshare for two years, and my flatmate loved Leonard Cohen. He would always play him when he got home from the studio or something.

Sigrid

Home Parents Listening Loved Grow

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

Tony Harrison

Morning Light Fire Job War Poetry

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Luc Ferrari

Beginning First Concrete Concerts

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Dennis Kucinich

Fear War Rich Tax Poor Driven

As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.

Doug Ducey

Government Need Economy Laws Our

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

Chris Avellone

Life Good Think Choose Morality Way

I'm not going to back down from my controversial positions. If I were to do that, my base would be gone. And so my strategy is just, continue to speak the truth, even if it is controversial.

Corey Stewart

Truth Speak Strategy Back Down Gone

People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.

Brian Fallon

School War People Cold Thought Get

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.

Apollonius of Tyana

Love Reputation Argument Person Way

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

Government People Democracy Hands Up

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

Phyllis Smith

Life Discipline My Life Over Dancer