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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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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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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At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
