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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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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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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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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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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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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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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I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
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Paul Lisicky, in his new memoir, 'The Narrow Door,' describes losing his old friend, the novelist Denise Gess, and his husband, the acclaimed poet and memoirist Mark Doty, within a year of each other: Gess to cancer, at the age of 57, and Doty to another man.
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I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think hes probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.
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If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
