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Lionel Shriver Quotes

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

Lionel Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1957

Topics

Success Dreams Live Accomplishment

I have a very wonderful bath ritual.

Michael Bastian

Bath Wonderful Ritual Very

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Amy Waldman

Thinking Want Sitting Write Years

I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then, and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.

Stephen Graham

Work Love Live Job Youth Thought

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

Sturgill Simpson

Kentucky Religious Particularly

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Steven Pinker

Mind Political Questions Down Moral

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

Fishing Idiot Line Shore Standing

As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely different genre than classical or opera. In terms of classical and opera, playing accompaniment, I'd say I was a 3.

Simon Helberg

Myself Say Opera Concert Piano Than

If a man can coach a female, why can't a female coach a male? When I was looking for a coach, the gender of the coach never occurred to me. It was about who I thought was good and who I could get along with and listen to.

Martina Navratilova

Good Man Me Looking Thought Gender

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Michael Ramsey

Attitude Faith Knowledge Yourself

It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there's a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.

Misty Copeland

Training World Think Professional

If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.

Lolo Jones

Good Good-Looking Now Athlete She

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

Douglas Booth

Brave Career Choice Boy Right Over