Lionel Shriver Quotes
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.
Lionel Shriver
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Pat Paulsen
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
Ralph Baer
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
Quincy Jones
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
Madhur Mittal
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga