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 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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People want a remarkable experience; it's what they'll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many companies.
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In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
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Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.
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I was in Baltimore in 2012 and 2013.
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I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
