Lydia Millet Quotes
The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.
