Lionel Shriver Quotes
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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I'm bad at returning phone calls.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
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I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
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I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.
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I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
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I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
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I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
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Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.
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Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
