Lionel Shriver Quotes

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

Lionel Shriver

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ThinkBetterAmericaSayDiscourse

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.

John Darnielle

LoveMeWritingWorldThinkBetter

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Tom Stoppard

FunnyUnexpectedYouLoseBackKnow

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

Tom Ford

AdvertisingDesignCustomerYouLast

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Roddy Doyle

GoodExperienceStoryJust Because

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

Ron Howard

CharacterAloneTogetherThinkPhony

My father graduated from high school and didn't go to college and still found his way.

Russell Hornsby

FatherSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolGo

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

Mary Pope Osborne

ChildrenTreeImaginationChildBook

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

Lou Barlow

MusicPeopleComputersThinkHands

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Denis Dutton

BeautyExperienceTryOutFigure

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

Donald Sutherland

GrowthMomentHatePeopleStartYou

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

Clara Hughes

PassionHeartListeningSucceedNow

When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.

Antonio Conte

FamilyAloneSimpleYouCountryNew

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