Lydia Millet Quotes
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Don't limit your audience.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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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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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
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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.
