Lydia Millet Quotes
If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
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If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
