Lionel Shriver Quotes
Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony.
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It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.
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Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
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Things have their own pace, and if we work with that pace and anticipate the issues correctly, we can have good results.
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My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'
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I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.
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Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.
