Lydia Millet Quotes
My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Venus favors the bold.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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The only time I've ever danced every day was during 'Dancing with the Stars' and in the two-week rehearsal for 'Dirty Dancing,' and that was only to do a particular dance.
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Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.
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I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
