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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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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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support!
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I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
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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.
