Lydia Millet Quotes
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I love guys like Charlie Parker.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.
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The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
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And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.
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To know and not to do is not yet to know.
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I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
