Lydia Davis Quotes
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.Lydia Davis
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores -
Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin -
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple -
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
Faith Hunter -
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun -
I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
Zac Brown Band -
My schedule is so crazy.
J. J. Watt -
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
Larry David -
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett -
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher -
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton -
A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
Calista Flockhart -
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
Sam Heughan
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On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Rene Descartes -
In one of Chekhov’s short stories, a little boy is drawing a picture. His father asks him why the man in the picture is taller than the house. “If he were smaller,” says the child reasonably, “you couldn’t see his eyes.” ENTRY:
Bel Kaufman -
Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
Karan Mahajan -
I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
Philip Reeve -
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis