Lionel Shriver Quotes
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
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I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off than if I never said anything, well, sorry but not sorry.
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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
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My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.
