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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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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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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We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
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Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning. I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today.
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The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.
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I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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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.
