"They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form."

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Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.1, Delacorte Press

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#Bird Quotes #Hawks Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.”
“If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.”
“I don't mind not being cool.”
“And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.”

Source : "World leaders praise voter courage", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2005.
“I know a lot of people have a hard time talking dirty - they dont know what to say, how to start, or when to end it. Also, at first they will think they sound ridiculous. And they might. But let me just say that talking dirty is so important in sex. And its pretty easy. To wit: Establish from the very beginning that you like this. And trust me, you want to do it early on. Because if you wait too long to introduce the concept, your Special Lady Friend will be a little thrown and might not take you seriously.”
“Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.”
“Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong”

Source : Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)
“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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