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.
Lydia Millet
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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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.
Taylor Swift
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
Gaby Hoffmann
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos
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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.
M. J. Rose
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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.
Dambisa Moyo
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
Ed Gillespie
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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.
Safra A. Catz
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
Harold Ramis
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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.
Kate Bernheimer
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
Gary Allan
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It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.
Harry Shum, Jr.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
Ian Frazier
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Marriage isn’t about the good days. Anyone can make a life with anyone else when you are having a good day. Marriage is about the bad days. When you have lost confidence. When you have been hurt. Or failed. Or gotten angry. Or made a terrible mistake. That is when the power of a marriage reveals itself.
Stephen Tobolowsky
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My husband loves the '90s; he's an avid '90s movie watcher, and it drives me insane. Nothing real came out of the '90s! The bad bathing suits that came up too high on women's hips came out in the '90s!
Lindsey McKeon
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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.
Lydia Millet
