Lydia Davis Quotes
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
Quotes to Explore
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I love bayou life.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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One cannot kick against geography!
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I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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Overnight, I became a public figure.
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For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
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My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
