Lionel Shriver Quotes

Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

Lionel Shriver

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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

John Boyd Orr

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The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

John Cleese

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My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

John Williams

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I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

Amitava Kumar

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Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

Spike Lee

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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

Rowan Atkinson

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If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

Liv Ullmann

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If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Anselm Kiefer

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Phil Knight

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I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on the big screen is completely mind-blowing.

Noelle Stevenson

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

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