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.Lydia Millet
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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.
Gary Bettman -
Think and grow rich.
Napoleon Hill -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Barbara Jordan -
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.
Dacre Montgomery
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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.
Camille Claudel -
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
Karen McCarthy -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
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.
Larry J. Sabato -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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.
Zach Wamp -
When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
Mahesh Babu -
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.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp -
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
Malik Jackson
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When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.
Kenan Thompson -
The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.
Jillian Michaels -
There she was in her bed. Dead. But nobody explained it to me. They told me later that she had gone to America.
Vartan Gregorian -
L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
Lydia Millet