Lydia Millet Quotes
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.
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The most important gain is that each member of society will be able to predict the other’s actions. Concomitantly, the interaction of both becomes predictable… Many actions are possible on a low level of attention. Each action of one is no longer a source of astonishment and potential danger to the other.
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
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If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.
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I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.
