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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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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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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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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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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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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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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It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page lay unblurred before him, and he saw it with a clarity denied to other men of his generation.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
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I've had people say I'm inconsistent, and sure, I've never held a UFC or WEC title.
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The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
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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.
