Lydia Millet Quotes
Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
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There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.
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[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
