Lionel Shriver Quotes

I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.

Lionel Shriver

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There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues.

Jenna Morasca

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If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

John Dickerson

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I see sometimes how guys may make a buffoon of themselves to sell a few more tickets. They create this image, and when it's all said and done, it's like everything falls out from under them. They have no stability. I never wanted to be one of those guys.

Andre Ward

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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

Maya Angelou

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I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

Amanda Peet

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The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Romola Garai

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Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

Rowan Williams

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As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Coco Chanel

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One actress can't challenge or change anything.

Anushka Sharma

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I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

Portia de Rossi

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I'm just not no kid... I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That's how I am.

Lil Skies

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As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

Gustaf Skarsgard

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