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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Zen has no business with ideas.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I devoted myself to the house, to the children, to Pietro. Not once did I think of having Clelia back or of replacing her with someone else. Again, I took on everything, and certainly I did it to put myself in a stupor. But it happened without effort, without bitterness, as if I had suddenly discovered that this was the right way of spending one's life, and a part of me whispered: Enough of those silly notions in your head.
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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.
