Lionel Shriver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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(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 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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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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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.
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I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.
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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.
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I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
