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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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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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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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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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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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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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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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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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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You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
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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.
