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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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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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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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
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Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.
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The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.
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Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
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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.'
