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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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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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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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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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.
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The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
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I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.
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For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
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I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
