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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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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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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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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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
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You have to make the most responsible decisions you can with the resources you have.
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It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
