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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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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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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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
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Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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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.'
