Lydia Millet Quotes
We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
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And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
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One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future.
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I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.
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We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
