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.Lionel Shriver
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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.
Washed Out -
My daughter is my passion and my life.
Tamara Mellon -
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Gary Oldman
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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.
Eckhart Tolle -
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
Jack Schmitt -
If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
Adam Draper -
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
Zac Brown Band -
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Samuel Butler -
Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Adam Mansbach -
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi -
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
J. August Richards -
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
Peter Morgan -
Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
A. R. Rahman -
I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
Peter Higgs -
Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
Jeff Lemire -
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.
Lionel Shriver