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.
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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.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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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.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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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.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
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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.
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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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.
