Lionel Shriver Quotes

In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

Lionel Shriver

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I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

John Byrne

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I've always shopped on the sale rack, and I've always been the girl flipping through the hangers trying to find the best deal.

Meghan Markle

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For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before.

Stefano Gabbana

FutureMeComingLikeBeforeUSA

It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

Rupert Grint

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We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

Rowan Atkinson

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I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

Mike Krieger

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You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

Mike Leigh

CameraLongYouFindKnowWill

Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.

Jay Samit

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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

Doris Lessing

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I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

Donald McKay

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A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Bob Dylan

PeopleMeRoadBreathingNatural

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

Atom Egoyan

MoneySeeingWantSeeUpCost

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