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.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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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.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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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.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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It's all been guerrilla warfare trying to get my name out there.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
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All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.
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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.
