Lydia Millet Quotes
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Don't limit your audience.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
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Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.
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Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
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Get the big idea and all else follows.
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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
