Lionel Shriver Quotes
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
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Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.
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What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.
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As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
