Lydia Millet Quotes
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.Lydia Millet
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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.
Vidal Sassoon -
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
Adam Kluger -
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.
Ian Mckellen -
I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty -
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
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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.
Ralph Peters -
My parents are high school sweethearts.
Becky G -
The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
Vijay Sethupathi -
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.'
Gary Paulsen -
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
Kapil Sibal -
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.
Aasif Mandvi
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
Cam -
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Zong Qinghou -
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon -
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.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
Dan Brown
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
Ion Tiriac -
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
Max Beckmann -
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf -
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
Lydia Millet