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Caine Carraway im Anzug war ein Anblick für die Götter.
Cain Carraway ohne Anzug war heiß wie die Sünde.


Samantha Young

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AUGUSTINE HIPPO Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
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SAMANTHA YOUNG You're going to get us killed."
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SAMANTHA YOUNG Hindsight sucked. In fact hindsight should be assassinated.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Sarcasm is such an unattractive quality in anyone but me.
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SAMANTHA YOUNG How much did bro tell you?"
"Bro?"
"The White King.
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SAMANTHA SHANNON I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically...
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SAMANTHA SHANNON It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight we...
SAMANTHA SHANNON What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being someth...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a...
SAMANTHA POWER When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school ...
SAMANTHA POWER I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now...
SAMANTHA POWER Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that...
SAMANTHA POWER The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or cli...
SAMANTHA POWER American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and pro...
SAMANTHA POWER Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly de...
SAMANTHA POWER If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting he...
SAMANTHA POWER My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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SAMANTHA POWER We are responsible for our incredulity.
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SAMANTHA MUMBA But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
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SAMANTHA MUMBA I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.
SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
SAMANTHA MUMBA People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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SAMANTHA MUMBA There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blon...
SAMANTHA MUMBA But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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SAMANTHA MUMBA Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w...
SAMANTHA MORTON I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
SAMANTHA MORTON I am proud of what I've done.
SAMANTHA MORTON I was physically abused and I retaliated.
SAMANTHA MORTON I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
SAMANTHA MORTON My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
SAMANTHA MORTON I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
SAMANTHA MORTON Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direc...
SAMANTHA MORTON The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
SAMANTHA MORTON I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k...
SAMANTHA MORTON Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn....
SAMANTHA MORTON Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
SAMANTHA MORTON For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money o...
SAMANTHA MORTON I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will s...
SAMANTHA MORTON It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children g...
SAMANTHA MORTON I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring m...
SAMANTHA MORTON We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch...
SAMANTHA MORTON You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play ...
SAMANTHA MORTON When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're tal...
SAMANTHA MORTON I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with chil...
SAMANTHA MORTON I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. Th...
SAMANTHA MORTON What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless y...
SAMANTHA MORTON I like to stretch my acting muscles.
SAMANTHA MORTON There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
SAMANTHA MATHIS Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
SAMANTHA MATHIS You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
SAMANTHA MATHIS When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
SAMANTHA MATHIS I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I ...
SAMANTHA ISLER I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I c...
SAMANTHA ISLER I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
SAMANTHA ISLER I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em...
SAMANTHA HARVEY It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj...
SAMANTHA HARVEY The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
SAMANTHA HARVEY I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int...
SAMANTHA HARVEY The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet...
SAMANTHA HARVEY When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t...
SAMANTHA HARVEY We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind...
SAMANTHA HARVEY There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m...
SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we...
SAMANTHA HARVEY What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching...
SAMANTHA HARVEY My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T...
SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha...
SAMANTHA HARVEY I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
SAMANTHA FOX I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.
SAMANTHA FOX I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ...
SAMANTHA FOX When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
SAMANTHA FOX At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
SAMANTHA FOX When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur...
SAMANTHA FOX I still keep my accent.
SAMANTHA FOX It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
SAMANTHA FOX I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
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