Lydia Millet Quotes
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.
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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
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A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession.
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Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
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Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
