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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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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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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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.
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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
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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.
