Lydia Millet Quotes
When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.
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Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, and I got pages of dialogue of real stuff to do with her.
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It was obvious there would be no return to 'normality.' The economy wouldn't be coming back. Globalism was over. The politicians and generals were failing to pull things together at the center. We would not be returning to Boston. The computer industry, in which so many hopes had been vested, was fading into history.
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When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
