Lionel Shriver Quotes

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

Lionel Shriver

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• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Simple
  • Boy
  • Bronx

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Today
  • House
  • Myself

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Founders

• I spend my money like I don't have anything.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Like
  • Spend

• There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Best
  • Gay
  • Better

• The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Tests
  • Laboratory

• I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Never
  • Years
  • Shoes

• Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Kids
  • Growth
  • Development

• I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Where

• 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Couple

• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • City
  • Forever
  • Wall

• Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Procrastination

• Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Real
  • Compassion

• Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; What's a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Time

• I say, let’s learn more and then speculate.

  

  Vernor Vinge

• I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.

  

  P. D. James
  • Work
  • Why
  • Art

• We will never privatise the National Health Service.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Health
  • Service

• If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Remember
  • Neighborhood
  • Small Things

• What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Beginning

• I'd love to work with Gaultier, and I'm obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Work

• we were investing all our thoughts on what could possibly come next for the Bugatti brand, and we don’t think that an SUV would be the right solution for us, and I repeated this several times. It’s not the SUV, and it’s definitely not the limousine.

  

  Stephan Winkelmann
  • Solution
  • Possibly
  • SUVs

• Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

  

  Lionel Shriver