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Lionel Shriver Quotes

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.

Lionel Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Happiness Vision Feel Place Never

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

Jennie Finch

Name My Own Kid Own Bat Dreamed

Scoring in the Derby d'Italia is always important and a source of great satisfaction.

Mauro Icardi

Great Satisfaction Important Always

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.

Amitabh Bachchan

You Body Back Wonder Know Why

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Tom Douglas

Home Time King Sweet World Pig

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Russell Wilson

Football Talent People Me Believe

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

What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where they don't play pretend for a living is that... Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.

Miriam Shor

Life Family Friends And Family Play

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

Josh Lucas

Broken Hard Southern Accent Had

People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'

Don Lemon

Time Moment I Am People Me Look

I don't trade my vote for money.

Bob Packwood

Money Vote Trade

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Bobbie Ann Mason

World Feel Minds Must Exciting Most

There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

Anthony Edwards

Good Attitude Time Think You Goal