Lionel Shriver Quotes

Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.

Lionel Shriver

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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.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Band
  • Go
  • Debate

• I'm so secluded. Very alone.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Alone
  • Very
  • Secluded

• 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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Question
  • Choice
  • Learned

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Same
  • Lake

• 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.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Destination
  • Los Angeles

• 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.

  

  Livy
  • World
  • Long
  • Eyes

• You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• 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.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Life
  • Words

• 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.'

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Different
  • Remember

• Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.

  

  Bill Flores

• I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

  

  Linda Gray
  • People
  • Family
  • Relationship

• Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

  

  Kate Morton
  • First Step
  • Percy
  • Climebed

• Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • American
  • Achieve

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

  

  William Deane
  • Memories
  • Racism
  • Duty

• Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.

  

  Lionel Shriver