Lydia Millet Quotes
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
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I don't trust a girl that doesn't eat. I find that a little sketchy.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?” I asked my teacher. “There is,” my teacher answered me. “Well, what is it?” I asked. “It’s...” began my teacher and suddenly fell silent. I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was silent. And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent. We’re both standing and silent. Ho-la-la! We’re both standing and silent. Ho-le-le! Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent! 16-17 July 1937
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I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
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No one bought my screenplays.
