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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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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I don't have a favorite part. My current part is my favorite part. And when I do the next thing, that will be my favorite part.
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It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
