Lydia Millet Quotes
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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It takes three to make a child.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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The highest state is laughter.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
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Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.
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I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.
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As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.
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In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
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Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.
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Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.
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I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.
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The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
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It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
