Lionel Shriver Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke -
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco -
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac -
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
J. G. Ballard -
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
Ian Mckellen
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi -
I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
Xavier Dolan -
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
Randy Wayne -
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
Nancy Kress
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright -
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale -
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Malcolm de Chazal -
I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
Carlos Ghosn -
I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.
Tali Lennox
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Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
Said Musa -
I think I was born out of my time.
Bill Pullman -
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
Peter McWilliams -
China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.
Li Na -
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles -
Ultimately, Hillary and Obama are on the same side.
Lionel Shriver