Lydia Millet Quotes
The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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'Salutations my niggas, I'm aware that I'm different, you can still keep it hood while you're smoking just listen, it don't matter your racejust take a blunt to the face'
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I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.
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My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
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The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.