Lydia Millet Quotes

The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

Lydia Millet

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PeopleSympathyEdgeLikeHarder

When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall for hours, laughing while her daughter took insane-looking selfies on my phone.

Jenna Wortham

FamilyFriendDaughterBestPhone

A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.

John Lewis

GovernmentPeopleAmericanSunday

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

Shirley Manson

WomenMusicSupportVoiceFindWay

'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world.

Shonda Rhimes

LiveGovernmentFunWorldDarkKind

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

Tony Blair

LifeDecisionWalkTryingYouUp

I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything in your life is great, bad weather can set the mood. You can write songs in New York because it's not always perfect. To write a good song, things can't be perfect.

Tom Odell

LifeGoodGreatNew YorkWeather

I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!

Rory O'Malley

GoodTimeThinkingWatchingTwice

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Ron Wyden

RidiculousTerrorismIdeaBetting

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

GrowthWorking TogetherTogether

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

Russ

TimeWritingProudYouSayOut

Use God's word to acknowledge what He did for you.

Monica Johnson

GodYouAcknowledgeWordHeDid

I think I am very anti-social.

Disha Patani

I AmThinkI ThinkVeryAm

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