Lydia Millet Quotes

Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.

Lydia Millet

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SpaceIdeasFreeRelationshipsSafe

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.

Jill Stein

PathCitizenshipImmigrantsImportant

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Jesse Ventura

HomeFreedomPeopleBraveFreeLand

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

BeautyInterestingPursuitStandard

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

Michael D. Barnes

GunInsuranceHandsTryingYouSay

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Alyson Stoner

SuccessPeopleYouAimOverBecause

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

Rob Gronkowski

KnowledgeFootballYouSkillMatter

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

Michael Ondaatje

StoryPlanDownWriteBoredOut

Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

Chris Bauer

GreatCreativeEndYouPlayDone

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

Chris Patten

MomentHappensCauseMajorCO2

I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.

Alison Mosshart

LoveDayPeopleMePaintingThink

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Philip Roth

WarAlwaysFondUnlessInordinately

I love to play football, and when I come on the pitch, I want to do my best to help the team. It's up to the coach the position I play.

Philippe Coutinho

LoveBestFootballTeamHelpPlay

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