Lionel Shriver Quotes
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
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I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That's one of my main features as a player.
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In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
