FastSaying

Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus


Samantha Young

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Eden will stay with you." I glanced up at the blue-haired woman who watched us. "She promises to tak...
KIMBERLY DERTING Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU You have the skills,” Chaol said, “but some of your moves are still undisciplined.”
“Th...
SARAH J. MAAS Focus on the present because you will live there the rest of your life.
JIM GENOVESE Please come back to me, Alex. Please. I love you too much to lose you.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Don't focus on your future self, focus on your present self. If you don't focus on your present self...
MATTHEW SMITH PHD Butler snapped his fingers. "Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have th...
EOIN COLFER If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.
UNKNOWN I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
MOTHER JONES If you strive to do what is right, you will never have to please people. If you strive to please peo...
JOHNNY WALKER Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, what
are you waiting for?”
“The Second C...
JEANIENE FROST We're bringing her back, definitely.
DETECTIVE SCOTT MCGAHA You in a threesome? You won't even wear a thong! [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY Wretch! I shan’t allow you to take a rise out of me! I want to talk to you about Jane!”
“...
GEORGETTE HEYER Do you ever stop being so serious and dull?"
"Do you ever stop being such a prick?" I snapped b...
SARAH J. MAAS She straightened and crossed her arms. “I can’t sleep with you,” she blurted.
… “As y...
ANGELA QUARLES I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and fo...
BILL LASWELL Please. The boy gets a boner every time you walk into the room."
My eyes pop back open. Does sh...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Reevie . . . I feel wasted.” Her head sways from side to side, her hair hanging in her face. “Wi...
JENNY HAN What is your promise land into which you focus on bringing the kingdom lifestyle?
SUNDAY ADELAJA Shut it, right there, or I’ll give you a hole that won’t shut.” He pointed the Colt at Clinton...
C.G. FAULKNER I'm sure it's gonna be great, just bringing it all back again, ... I mean, you put this on and you w...
GEORGE CLINTON When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the p...
STEPHENIE MEYER When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH Impertinent submissive,” Raoul snapped, and his dark brown eyes turned mean. “Nothing new for th...
CHERISE SINCLAIR Monsieur, please stay back. You are old and frail, and I would not have you hurt in this clash.
PAUL TOBIN I can guarantee it, " Jenks said as their eyes met. The second that you see her, you will fall in lo...
KIM HARRISON I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only...
ROBERT WALSER I placed my hand over her mouth and said: 'You have made your protest so please be quiet. She later ...
NICHOLAS WITCHELL Dear God,” said Will, looking from Charlotte to Nate and back again. “Is there anything that mak...
CASSANDRA CLARE Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”
I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if...
HELEN OYEYEMI I have a present for you," he murmured, still stroking along her spine. He loved the way she felt cu...
KATIE REUS At present I have no information to give to you on this.
KONG QUAN You have to think of the roads as an essential tool for bringing the country back to normal.
CAROLINE CHAUMONT ...are you as deft at handling your sword as Captain Westfall?"
"Better," he whispered in her e...
SARAH J. MAAS Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to the music... Look at paintings and at times b...
KOUSHUN TAKAMI When change cometh, she will bring peace at her back. She will not bend to your will; you must bend ...
ADRIANA MATHER Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it.
ALAN LAKEN You don't have to say you don't want him back if you're only bringing forward to your minister negat...
PAUL CAVALLUZZO Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
ECKHART TOLLE New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This chang...
RICK RIORDAN I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My fin...
TRACY CHAPMAN that may not be the case in the second quarter because of the shift back to 'old economy' stocks ......
ALEXANDER PARIS One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, b...
JOHN BARROW Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. Wh...
MARCEL PROUST I'm looking forward to getting to know these young men on a personal level. They're young and quick,...
BENNIE GIBBS The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a dia...
JONAS MEKAS Please all, and you will please none.
AESOP Please all, and you will please none
AESOP I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.
ESTELLE MASKAME She murmured, "You're unfinished."
"Aye, precisely."
"I need to go."
When she moved t...
KRESLEY COLE She smiled at him. It was her special smile. Her please go away you piece of sub-proletarian turd sm...
HELEN ZAHAVI You trust him, Trace, and you know it."
"With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.
LORI FOSTER Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ...
ECKHART TOLLE Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
ALAN LAKEIN Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now
ALAN LAKEIN When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts,...
AL ROKER I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and wor...
JOHN GREEN I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself t...
NICOLE KIDMAN For her to be able to do that at such a young age, she has such potential to become way bigger in th...
JANICE WILLIAMS That will solve nothing, my lord.” His wife strode into the kitchen, stiff pride shining in her ey...
MARY WINE Today focus on the qualities you like about yourself, focus on the good friends and family members y...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS She wanted a fucking cock... she wanted sex look in her eyes... you see that... look how she looks a...
DEYTH BANGER At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I pl...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If you listen to the prime minister, you will understand from her utterances that the areas related ...
DERRICK KELLIER And Samantha isn't the only one who performed for us as a freshman. (Outfielder) Alessandra Giampaol...
JENNIE RITTER Hungry licked her spoon and then pointed it at me. 'Aren't you forgetting the dishes?' she asked. LEMONY SNICKET If You Let The Past Control Your Present, Then You Will Never Have A Future
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE She turned back to the cards and tapped the Ace of Cups. "You're on the verge of a new beginning, a ...
RICHELLE MEAD O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
JOHN IRVING To please the men, you have to become something: to please the God, you just have to be yourself.
DR HITESH C SHETH You can't dwell with who you lose. You can only focus on who you have coming back.
CHRIS WELLS When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asle...
OSHO Focus on the future or you forget the present and it becomes the past
BRANDON GREEN Someday you will smile at me And I will smile back at you, You’re going to thank me For loving you...
ALON CALINAO DY No DNA material from any young man tested was present on the body of this complaining woman. Not pre...
WADE SMITH The industry is interested in bringing some of that intramuscular fat back. You don't need high leve...
DOYLE WILSON Are you going to eat him?" Samantha asked...
Warrick struggled for a moment, but had to tell h...
ERIN KELLISON I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroye...
ALICIA KEYS When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, y...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"
I stared at him, shocked.
Th...
ILONA ANDREWS My only regret is that no one told me at the beginning of my journey what I'm telling you now: there...
PATRICIA LOVE If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
LORD CHESTERFIELD A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
SHERMAN ALEXIE She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give conseque...
JANE AUSTEN We will have a fire hose of data coming back instead of bringing it back through a little garden hos...
JAMES GRAF It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to...
FRED WARD When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be plea...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If you focus on all that you could have been it will never be... but if you focus on who you are and...
JOHNNIE DENT JR. No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle poin...
MEG CABOT Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when...
VICTOR SHAMAS

More Samantha Young

Do I get to choose
what she commands you to do? Come on, let me, it’ll be fun.”
Jai la...
SAMANTHA YOUNG It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal...
SAMANTHA YOUNG You're going to get us killed."
"Well, since you got us kidnapped in the first place, I think i...
SAMANTHA YOUNG And like many wars it was built upon a mindless prejudice.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Hindsight sucked. In fact hindsight should be assassinated.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Sarcasm is such an unattractive quality in anyone but me.
SAMANTHA YOUNG ...and still Eden was avoiding him like he was a Bieber fan at a Korn concert.
SAMANTHA YOUNG When we’re there I’ll create a distraction. You have to keep your wits about you, Lady Rogan. Wa...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I miss our Would You Rather conversations and your hilarious answers. I miss your laugh. I miss the ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I know you love me, Jocelyn, because there’s no fucking way I can be this much in love with you, a...
SAMANTHA YOUNG It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG You could charm the pants off absolutely anyone," I told him quietly.

He smirked. "I take...
SAMANTHA YOUNG ...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time."

"I'll make sur...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you...
SAMANTHA YOUNG You're letting me go?"
He curled his upper lip, his expression painfully bitter as he took a st...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I’m glad you’re quitting the bar."

"You are?"

"Yeah. I’ve never liked yo...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. I...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I’ve never been this happy,” I whispered, a little scared by it.
Caine must have heard the ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG No one will ever understand like I do. You’re so different with me, baby. You take care of me. You...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I am not your mother. I’m not looking for something else from life. I’m not looking for more. I�...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Lexie,” he said, his voice guttural, “I told you this to wake you up. A man like me isn’t capa...
SAMANTHA YOUNG For the longest time my company is what got me up in the morning. It was what motivated me every sec...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Lexie, I practically sold my soul to get where I am today. I’m a selfish bastard … and you …�...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I won’t stay,” I warned him. “I won’t try to fight for you anymore. This is it. If you walk ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG You’re lying to yourself. You’re holding this up as a way to keep me locked out. But it’s too ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG when you asked me to stay away from you in your note, it finally hit me. You meant it. You weren’t...
SAMANTHA YOUNG It was unrelenting and painful as it clawed and clouded his brain, reducing him to a saliva-ridden a...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Huffing in annoyance at the interruption, not only at Charlie, but at herself for being annoyed with...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Tira y empuja demasiado, y mi Corazón se rompera.
SAMANTHA YOUNG there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou...
SAMANTHA YOUNG OK.So beside the possible extended lietime you live a normal human life? You what...you have an apar...
SAMANTHA YOUNG How much did bro tell you?"
"Bro?"
"The White King.
SAMANTHA YOUNG What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it?
SAMANTHA YOUNG Jai sighed again."What is it about this kid?"
Disgusted by his seeming callousness,Ari shot him...
SAMANTHA YOUNG How do we exorcise one of the Jinn?"

He shrugged. "You got Yellow Pages?"
"Seriousl...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I don't want this heart, it's split in two.
SAMANTHA YOUNG How can I lean on you when you're lying down?
SAMANTHA YOUNG Ari scoffed meanly, "God, between you and Charlie it's a wonder I haven't gone into frickin' dentist...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I do not deal well with hysterical women.
SAMANTHA YOUNG I've had my fill of Jinn for the day. And not the good gin that my dad has locked in his liquor cabi...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Something about him made her pause. When his eyes glittered back at her from the shadows, Ari felt h...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I...great, I can talk again."

"Well." Charlie shrugged. "Paradise can only last so long, ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG How was it possible to miss someone when they were standing right next to you?
SAMANTHA YOUNG The Stars Are Not Wanted but the Sky Will Submit
SAMANTHA YOUNG Getting up from the table, shaking a little at her unraveling, Ari cuffed Charlie across the head. �...
SAMANTHA YOUNG There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between myth...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I’m fine, Ari. Read the book.”
“If you’re sure?”
He shook his head, lowering his...
SAMANTHA YOUNG That sounds suspiciously like you’re calling me a manwhore.”
“I am calling you a m...
SAMANTHA YOUNG You really need to work on intonation when you use sarcasm. That way people will know when you’re ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG We are all looking for a place in life, somewhere we fit. It’s not a place that changes who we are...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I never meant to fall in love with you. But I did. I felt it the first night I made love to you. I t...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Du darfst deinen Boss nicht gleich am ersten Tag umbringen. Du darfst deinen Boss nicht gleich am er...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Endlich nahm er meine kleine Hand in seine große.
Die Haut seiner Handflächen war leicht rau,...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Er macht mir Angst", gestand ich ihr.
Sie gab ein Prustton von sich. "Bei mir ist er die Liebe...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Caine Carraway im Anzug war ein Anblick für die Götter.
Cain Carraway ohne Anzug war heiß w...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Beschwipst, betrunken ... ein Gentleman würde die Situation jedenfalls nicht ausnutzen."
"Du h...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Sie kannst du vielleicht täuschen, aber mich nicht."
Er sah mich von der Seite an. Offenbar h...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Schließlich sagte ich leise: "Wie kommt's, dass du so weise bist, Effie?"
"Ich habe es siebenu...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I miss someone who gets me. I called a woman on my research team a bitch – you know in a friendly ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I would say it was nice to meet you, but I was naked so… it wasn’t.
SAMANTHA YOUNG You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.
SAMANTHA YOUNG Good to know in times of war you can’t bluff for shit.
SAMANTHA YOUNG I feel like I'm missing something really important when you're gone. So important I don't feel like ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I don't like to share," he murmured.
"Braden, I'm not yours."
"For the next three months ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG In Paris people love and regret, kiss and be happy.
SAMANTHA How does somebody know you love them if you keep it to yourself.
SAMANTHA Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We s...
SAMANTHA ISLER All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
SAMANTHA MUMBA Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
SAMANTHA SMITH And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
SAMANTHA SMITH If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
SAMANTHA SMITH He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
SAMANTHA SMITH Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
SAMANTHA SMITH Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
SAMANTHA SMITH God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
SAMANTHA SMITH London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a s...
SAMANTHA SHANNON My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allow...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a ...
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 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.
SAMANTHA POWER What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is ...
SAMANTHA POWER Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferr...
SAMANTHA POWER When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realiz...
SAMANTHA POWER We are responsible for our incredulity.
SAMANTHA POWER The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evi...
SAMANTHA POWER Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbo...
SAMANTHA POWER Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
SAMANTHA POWER You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you...
SAMANTHA POWER For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's lif...
SAMANTHA POWER I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hear...
SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great...
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.
SAMANTHA MUMBA All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
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.
SAMANTHA MUMBA When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shie...
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.
SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing...
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.
SAMANTHA FOX