Lydia Millet Quotes
L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Think and grow rich.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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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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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Act because you love to act.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
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And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
