Lydia Millet Quotes

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

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• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• I've had such an odd career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Odd
  • Had

• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Business
  • Never
  • Ugly

• Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fear
  • Idea
  • Television

• Politics is compromise.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Politics
  • Compromise

• I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Admit

• In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• You're a fucking bitch. I'm going to destroy you.

  

  Paris Hilton

• The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Solitude

• America isn’t afraid to compete.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America

• An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Heart
  • Age

• I'd like to go back to Buffy, but I've been in a coma, I've jumped off a building, I've been in prison - how many other ways can they bring me back? But those guys are geniuses, so who knows?

  

  Eliza Dushku

• The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Culture
  • Organization

• Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz

• Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Farewell
  • Harlem
  • Bid

• Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.

  

  Clive Granger

• You come out of a meeting and you've put on a mask, which involves looking people in the eye, using certain mannerisms, certain phrases. Even if you learn to do it in a very seamless sort of way, you're still putting on an act. It's a very ex-hausting act.

  

  Ari Ne'eman
  • People
  • Act
  • Mask

• Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Friends

• Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

  

  Lydia Millet