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.Lydia Millet
Quotes to Explore
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
Cam -
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.
Harlan Coben -
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot
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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.
J. G. Ballard -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba -
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
Adam Peaty -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill -
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.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Ted Williams -
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.
Karan Johar -
Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
Edgar Wright -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver
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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
Catherynne M. Valente -
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
Walter Gilbert -
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
Sandra Cisneros -
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
Haile Selassie -
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.
Lydia Millet