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
  • Art
  • Why

• The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wonder
  • Persons
  • Nobility

• I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

  

  Lysette Anthony
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Father

• Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

  

  Laura Pergolizzi
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Content

• Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

  

  Lionel Shriver