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Samantha Shannon Quotes

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

Samantha Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Father History Imagination Me World

If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.

John Carroll Lynch

Costume Going Necessarily Rehearse

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Work Building Stand Down Place Up

We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

Cute Thought Kind Over Something

I wanted to have a book that showed there's no one way to sound black. I wanted to tell teens that the way you speak is okay; you're good the way you are.

Good Book Speak Black You Way

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Service Fight End Resignation Hold

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.

Queen World Knowing Without Sweaters

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Fun People Me Song Will Way

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

Good Myself Me Thought Ignore Know

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

Want Got Get Who Rid Them

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

Passion Regret You Sometimes Things

A lot of times late in your career, you don't have a chance to win a championship.

Win Chance You Career Late Your

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