Lydia Millet Quotes
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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Israeli Arabs must know they cannot live here and call the day of Israel's establishment the day of disaster.
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
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Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.
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It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
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Work is the best method devised for killing time.
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.
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I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.
