Samantha Harvey
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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 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... 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SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. I... SAMANTHA HARVEY 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 SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER 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... 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But I c... SAMANTHA ISLER I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen. SAMANTHA ISLER SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedd... SAMANTHA BOND One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man w... SAMANTHA BOND Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers. SAMANTHA BOND I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely s... SAMANTHA BOND If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down. SAMANTHA BOND Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called ... SAMANTHA BOND The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are ab... SAMANTHA BOND The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved ... SAMANTHA BOND I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work. SAMANTHA BOND I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong. SAMANTHA BOND I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason... SAMANTHA BOND It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing a... SAMANTHA BOND I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this ... SAMANTHA BOND When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first ... SAMANTHA BOND I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative th... SAMANTHA BOND Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing aro... SAMANTHA BOND I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on... SAMANTHA BOND It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. SAMANTHA BOND I always have bananas with me for energy. SAMANTHA BOND I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can. SAMANTHA BOND 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next seri... SAMANTHA BOND Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent. SAMANTHA BOND I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been v... SAMANTHA BOND If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50.... SAMANTHA BOND Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I... SAMANTHA BOND My best friend is my husband. SAMANTHA BOND I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. SAMANTHA BEE It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life. SAMANTHA BEE I learn something in the interviews from time to time. SAMANTHA BEE If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a sh... SAMANTHA BEE I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors. SAMANTHA BEE I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of informatio... SAMANTHA BEE I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people worki... SAMANTHA BEE I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we h... SAMANTHA BEE There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actuall... SAMANTHA BEE It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doi... SAMANTHA BEE A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada. SAMANTHA BEE I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid. SAMANTHA BEE I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's go... SAMANTHA BEE My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are ... SAMANTHA BEE If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively... SAMANTHA BEE It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real... SAMANTHA BEE I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online. SAMANTHA BEE Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven bill... SAMANTHA BEE It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions. SAMANTHA BEE I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything li... SAMANTHA BEE I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my ch... SAMANTHA BEE You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask. SAMANTHA BEE The best part about poker is there's no down side. SAMANTHA BEE I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of s... SAMANTHA BEE I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's... SAMANTHA BEE Don't judge me. I made a lot of money. 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