Lionel Shriver Quotes

I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.

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• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Fun

• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

  

  Sai Baba
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Favourite

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

  

  John Bruton
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

  

  George Eads

• If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

  

  Coleman Randolph Hawkins
  • Trying

• If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Work
  • Country

• I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Long
  • Single
  • Bored