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Lionel Shriver Quotes

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Health Research Infinite Protect Any

Get a gym membership! If you have a membership, you're bound to go. If you say, like, 'Oh, I'll get it one day,' you're never going to do it.

Jennette McCurdy

Day You Gym Go Say One Day

I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.

Andrea Riseborough

Simple Simple Things Scared Big Get

'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

Relationship Great Think Comedy Body

I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.

Good Me Famous Actor Become Never

You walk into an arena with 10,000 people and no security and everybody hating you, it takes some gumption.

Walk People You Security Hating

When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!

Water Story Arrogance Acting Person

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Society Think Stronger Desire Way

They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

You Engineers Office Two Out Brazil

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

Life Positive Live Mind Negative

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Life Nature Live Together Unity Own

Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.

Worth You Sometimes Difficult Film

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

Me Think Feel You Said Guy

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