Lionel Shriver Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
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My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
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But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
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It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.
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The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
