Lionel Shriver Quotes
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.
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Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.
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If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
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I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.
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It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.
