Lydia Millet Quotes
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
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I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
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Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
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Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.
