Lionel Shriver Quotes
When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled as an author the literary establishment is free to dismiss.Lionel Shriver
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
Lance Burton -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
Hani Furstenberg
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman -
There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
Olivia Culpo -
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom -
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll -
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
Jack Horner -
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
Malcolm Gladwell -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov -
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
Laura Ingraham -
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
R. Kelly -
In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relationships ... susceptible to physical impressions...
Louis MacNeice -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan -
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.
Mary Beard -
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
Jay-Z -
When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled as an author the literary establishment is free to dismiss.
Lionel Shriver