Lydia Davis Quotes
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
Quotes to Explore
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I read part of it all the way through.
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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.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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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.
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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.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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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.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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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.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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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.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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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.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even in my dreams.
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There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.
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The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
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Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
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Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication.
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I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
