Lydia Millet Quotes

You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.

Lydia Millet

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You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

Jerry Cantrell

LifeDaySpaceSurviveFeelYou

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Jennifer Connelly

PeopleWinThinkGrowYouWatching

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

Andrew Solomon

ParentingSportPerfectionists

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Ambrose Bierce

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Other brands I like besides Versace... Tom Ford makes incredible suits. I love the glasses as well. I have a plethora of Tom Ford shades. Who else do I like? Dolce & Gabbana, Dior Homme.

Trey Songz

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When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.

Tracy Chapman

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The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

Jonny Wilkinson

MeWorldThinkBetterProblemDone

Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.

Bob Casey, Jr.

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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

Antonya Nelson

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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Swami Sivananda

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I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

Paula Hawkins

ChildrenGreatI AmPeopleDesire

What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional - and people forget that.

Scooter Braun

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