Lydia Millet Quotes
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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The fundamental imperative about idolatry was that worship was not to be paid to any created thing such as a messenger, a planet, a star, one of the four elements, or to anything produced from them.
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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
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to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.
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I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.
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Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.
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Most of my books have something to do with L.A.
