Lionel Shriver Quotes
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
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Strength is weakness rearranged, a rope plaited from grass.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
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Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
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I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.
