Lydia Millet Quotes
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I was a horrible student.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.
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I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.
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He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.
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I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with 'Beat'… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the 'avatar' of all this.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like 'As Confucius say,' but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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They will certainly have a role in the future of aviation, there is no doubt about it. People will prefer to fly non-stop if it is available
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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I love irony.
