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Lydia Millet Quotes

I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1968

Topics

Never Leave Seem Left Though

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Wife Sunday Young Being Piece About

If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.

Grateful Long Phone Three Need Days

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Myself Creative Me Listening Key

Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.

Love Mother Passion Wife People Win

I have fun just about everywhere I go.

Fun Have Fun Go Just Everywhere

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

Life Good Struggle End You Find

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Robert C. Merton

Work Music Passion Mathematics Fun

The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.

Relationship Well-Being Human Between

I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

Work Time Money Football Job Mom

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Good School You Artist Bad Early

My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son's voice on the radio while they visited.

Success Son Great Time Parents Moon

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

God People Universe Secrets Know

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