"Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always."

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Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.136, A&C Black

Samantha Shannon

#Dangerous Quotes

“I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.”
“I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.”
“In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.”
“It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.”
“For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of empathy and solidarity rather than a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they're interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they're actually in the same boat.”
“I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.”
“Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (2011). “Robert Burns”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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