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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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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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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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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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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So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?
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Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.
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We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at, nor to live in or around, to a new century where there's a real desire for housing that's affordable, flexible, and places community at the heart of its thinking. For architects and the public it's an enticing prospect.
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I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
