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Lionel Shriver Quotes

Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Mother Girl Parents Argument

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Fool Sun Busy Seasons Windows Run

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

Football Game Momentum You Go Dead

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

History Church Go Rome Cults Which

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

Success Financial Go Medals Paid

The American people's vote can't be bought.

Michele Bachmann

People American Vote Bought

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

Jason Alexander

Life Manners Play Emotional Show

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

Day Action One Day Up Watch Sit

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

Shenaz Treasury

I Am Proud Everything Self-Made Am

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.

People Conversation Want Movies Talk

Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Relationship Parents Me Say Want

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Think Language Questions Human Ask

Acting didn't come and just clip me on the nose.

Me Acting Nose Come Just Clip

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