Lydia Millet Quotes

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Lydia Millet

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My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.

Jill Soloway

TimeTogetherChildhoodSisterClose

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Melanie Griffith

BedEverydayHimMayGetHours

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

SuccessFailureComplacencySurvive

People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.

Angus Deaton

PeopleBetterAmericanInequality

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

Jeff Buckley

FatherMotherMeThinkI CanBorn

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

Jeff Daniels

TimeJobPeopleCityDoorDumb

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

Amanda Hocking

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The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

Silvia Cartwright

LifeValuesWayBeliefsDomination

For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.

Michael Nutter

FamilyBusinessChildrenPolitical

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan

FearGreatDaringConcealed

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

Lois Lowry

BookGenerationArmyLivingIsland

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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