Lydia Davis Quotes
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores
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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
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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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
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
Zac Brown Band
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My schedule is so crazy.
J. J. Watt
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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
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow
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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
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
J. Michael Straczynski
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One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.
Charlie Weis
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I'm artistically critical of my own work.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow
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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis