Lionel Shriver Quotes
While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'
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Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.
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I love red. Red pants. Red suit. Red coat. Red anything.
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While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.
