Lionel Shriver Quotes

I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Book
  • American
  • Man

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Amazing
  • Dating
  • Skills

• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Contradiction
  • Scares
  • Stimulated

• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Occupation
  • Siege

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Think
  • Way
  • Running

• 99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Live
  • Media

• A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Hair
  • Someone
  • Intimacy

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Middle
  • East
  • Obviously

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Perfect
  • Star

• This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Beautiful
  • Green
  • Tourism

• I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Why
  • Free
  • Fashion

• I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

  

  Lionel Shriver
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