Lydia Millet Quotes
Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
Lydia Millet
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
Taylor Wilson
I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David
Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
Viktor E. Frankl
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
Zooey Deschanel
The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.
Edwidge Danticat
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa
If I see someone down, I'll try to give him a good laugh.
Joe Cowley
It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.
Bonnie Hammer
Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
Lydia Millet
