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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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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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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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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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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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.
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Don’t stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it.
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It didn't happen the way she was being charged
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If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
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Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.
