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.
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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?
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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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.
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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.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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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.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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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.
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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.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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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.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
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'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.
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Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.
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Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
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Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
