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The Stars Are Not Wanted but the Sky Will Submit


Samantha Young

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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.
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