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'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a3665/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/11/3665.v4.jpg" alt="Samantha Shannon"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Samantha Shannon</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="2631"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="2631" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a3665/2631/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=I%20have%20always%20been%20driven%3B%20I%27ve%20always%20wanted%20to%20be%20published%2C%20and%20I%20wanted%20to%20make%20that%20happen%2C%20so%20I%20worked%20very%20hard.%20%27Perfectionist%27%20would%20be%20a%20word%20to%20describe%20me.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa3665%2F2631%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/1409/">Hard</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/808/">Word</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/4159/">Worked</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a2149/12632/">I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a2149/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/5/2149.v4.jpg" alt="Felicity Jones"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Felicity Jones</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); 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