Samantha Shannon Quotes

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.

Samantha Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

John Varvatos

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I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.

Ana de Armas

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Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

Simon Rattle

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Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

Tracy Morgan

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In the salary-cap-free world of MLB, you get what you pay for... but only if you pay the most.

Tom Morello

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I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'

Ross Kemp

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The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

Javier Camara

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The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

Joseph Brodsky

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I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.

Donovan

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I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Christopher Buckley

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Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.

Bobby Kotick

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At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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