Lydia Millet Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
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There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.
