Lydia Millet Quotes

Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

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• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
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  • Now

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
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• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
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• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
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• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Stop
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Day
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• The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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  • Man

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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• I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Writing
  • End
  • Puzzle

• I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Learn
  • Inspiration

• I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Care
  • Actor

• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Works
  • Move
  • Surrender

• I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Success

• The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.

  

  Claron McFadden
  • Travel
  • Mysterious
  • Jealousy

• My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Man
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Day

• Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

  

  Lydia Millet
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  • Waves