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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My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.
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At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.
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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.
