Lionel Shriver Quotes

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

Lionel Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WorkWomenMortgagePayMost

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

Jesse Plemons

YouWantExploreHumanReasonAct

I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that.

Jenna Marbles

CoolMediaMoveTraditionalSold

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

John McCain

GoodExperienceIntelligenceBad

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

Anna Kendrick

PeopleSurpriseAlwaysSideVolume

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

Mia Wasikowska

LiveCharacterTimeMeAlwaysFilm

The thing that has led me to the place that I am is that every moment in my life, I've been following my dream: following my dream to go to the University of Toronto, following my dream to get my Ph.D., following my dream to work in Hollywood.

Stephanie Savage

LifeWorkMomentI AmMeMy Life

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

Robert Buckley

FamilyMeSomeoneCheatingWorst

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

Jay Chandrasekhar

FocusBrokenSketchLizardDidThen

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

Cormac McCarthy

TimeDayGoldPerfectHeavenRoom

The day my players relax, I get crazy. They know that.

Claudio Ranieri

DayCrazyRelaxKnowPlayersGet

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

SimplePeopleSomeoneYouNeedPay

Who lives if India doesn't survive?

Arun Jaitley

SurviveIndiaWhoLives

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