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.
Lance Burton -
The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
Oliver Tambo -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
Randeep Hooda -
There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
Naftali Bennett -
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Kate Winslet
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
Carl Hagelin -
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.
Becky Lynch -
Everything I publish is for my readers.
Felix Dennis -
Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
Sam Graves -
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
Imelda Staunton -
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.
Harold E. Varmus
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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.
Kate McKinnon -
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.
Damien Hirst -
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.
Karen Finerman -
The most extraordinary change in Moscow was Arbat Street, the USSR's first pedestrian mall. Of course, there's something a little sad about a pedestrian mall in a nation where few people own cars- the whole damn country's a pedestrian mall.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If they come prying they can leave curious.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.
Warren Farrell
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
Jim Parsons -
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
Charles Bass -
I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala -
In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.
Geoff Dyer -
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
Lionel Shriver