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 -
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 -
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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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 -
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
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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 -
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
Edith Head -
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
Wayne Coyne -
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
Katee Sackhoff -
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
Zig Ziglar -
My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
Anton du Beke -
I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.
Charles Bock -
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis