Lionel Shriver Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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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.
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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.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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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.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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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.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.
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about his father I have a real respect, and a real anger and sadness at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do the math on exactly what it all means.
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
