Lydia Davis Quotes
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!Lydia Davis
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I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
Flume -
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah -
I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
D. B. Weiss -
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
Gal Gadot -
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim -
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
Walter Isaacson -
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama -
My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
Ramon Rodriguez
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik -
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
T. D. Jakes -
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
Hank Azaria -
I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
Sally Phillips -
I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
Tammy Blanchard -
Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
Kate Williams
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Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.
Dennis Muren -
Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.
Elena Ferrante -
If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
Peter Jennings -
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Find things you're passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers -
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
Lydia Davis