Part of the rationale for that is not that we're growing in population, but that we have one school [North Elementary] that we haven't made any major renovations to in years. We have 12 trailers sitting at that school. It's just not an efficient facility.
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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