Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.


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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood
LIONEL TRILLING
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century...
LIONEL BARRYMORE
I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
LIONEL ABEL
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, pos...
LIONEL TRILLING
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is ...
LIONEL BARRYMORE
But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
LIONEL SHRIVER
Omnipotence is a status that is fragile at best. By its very own standard meaning of unlimited power...
LIONEL SUGGS
He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi...
LIONEL SHRIVER
People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their o...
LIONEL SUGGS
Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
LIONEL SUGGS
Beware of what "everybody says".
LIONEL SHRIVER
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teen...
LIONEL BLUE
I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ...
LIONEL SUGGS
Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
LIONEL SHRIVER
Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m...
LIONEL SUGGS
Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER
His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER
I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
LIONEL BARRYMORE
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER
consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective...
LIONEL TRILLING
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief
LIONEL TRILLING
I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso...
LIONEL SOSA
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders...
LIONEL SUGGS
Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha...
LIONEL SUGGS
Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
LIONEL SUGGS
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in...
LIONEL RICHIE
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
LIONEL RICHIE
The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
LIONEL BLUE
To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i...
LIONEL SUGGS
When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS
People lie to adapt...
LIONEL SUGGS
I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t...
LIONEL SUGGS
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I...
LIONEL BLUE
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
LIONEL BLUE
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE