Lydia Millet Quotes
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.
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I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
