Lionel Shriver Quotes
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.
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I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.
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There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'
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Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.
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I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.
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The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
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Surround yourself with people who lift you higher.
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For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
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Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
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I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.
