Lionel Shriver Quotes
A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…
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When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.
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In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged.
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I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
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You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.
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Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.
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A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.
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If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.
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Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality.
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.
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A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.
