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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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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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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Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.
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I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
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Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.
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I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
