Lydia Davis Quotes
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.
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It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.
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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
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Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.
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It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
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I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.
