Lydia Millet Quotes
In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.
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I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated.
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That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim.
