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SHANNON A. THOMPSON We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.
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DOROTHEA DIX Old habits are strong and jealous.
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DOROTHEA BRANDE Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
DOROTHEA BRANDE A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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DOROTHEA BRANDE Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
DOROTHEA BRANDE Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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DOROTHEA DIX Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty....
DOROTHEA DIX No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
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DOROTHEA DIX Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; ...
DOROTHEA DIX The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it we...
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DOROTHEA DIX Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
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DOROTHEA DIX As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no retu...
DOROTHEA DIX Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
DOROTHEA DIX All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, an...
DOROTHEA DIX No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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DOROTHEA LANGE Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and t...
DOROTHEA DIX One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the tr...
DOROTHEA DIX Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to b...
DOROTHEA DIX I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties ar...
DOROTHEA DIX I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that st...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island,...
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DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I hav...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, an...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and...
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SAMANTHA SHANNON My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allow...
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SAMANTHA SHANNON I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obses...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
SAMANTHA SHANNON I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card readi...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the ol...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but i...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
SAMANTHA SHANNON I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sur...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interac...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat...
SAMANTHA SHANNON People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' be...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
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.
SAMANTHA SHANNON 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, an...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune ...
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 I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.
SHANNON TWEED There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret soc...
MICHAEL SHANNON I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
DEL SHANNON Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.
MICHAEL SHANNON What a noise we'll make among the drab and dull, how we'll...wait, I want more green. I hope I did n...
SHANNON HALE If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.
SHANNON HALE They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric loo...
SHANNON HALE There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with...
SHANNON HALE Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
SHANNON MILLER All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day ea...
SHANNON FANCHER I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.
SHANNON HALE Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess...
SHANNON LUCID I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the ma...
CLAUDE SHANNON I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
MOLLY SHANNON