Lydia Davis Quotes
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
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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 don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.
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In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
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If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.
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I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
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I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
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I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
