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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The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
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However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
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That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
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Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
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I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
