Lionel Shriver Quotes

For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.

Lionel Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

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RichWaySpoiledSuperiorPicky

I've always been an advocate for mental health.

Mauro Ranallo

HealthMental HealthAlwaysAdvocate

As with anything we do as entrepreneurs, researching how our businesses impact and influence our customers and our markets - and our world - is critical to building something of value as a business.

Michael Gerber

BusinessValueWorldBuildingImpact

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

Slick Rick

PeopleThinkPersonNiceNice Person

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Simone Signoret

WomenGrowWayOldGotWho

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

Lizzy Caplan

FamilyPeopleThinkBackEarlyKind

I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.

Desiigner

LoveMusicArtistMy OwnOwnI Love

People lose games. You don't win them all.

Devon Cajuste

PeopleWinYouLoseGamesThem

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Christopher Koch

ExperienceMeBookThreeWayNever

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

Chris Martin

MeSometimesWhyBandYearsLine

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Constance Wu

FunnyMeWorldThinkYouBad

You never know when it's going to be your last time to step onto the field.

Ali Krieger

TimeStepYouKnowNeverGoing

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a 'movie star' would be a very dangerous place.

Alison Elliott

LoveMePlaceDangerousPrettyStar

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