Lydia Millet Quotes

When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

Lydia Millet

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I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Jenny Eclair

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Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

Anderson Silva

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The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

Max von Sydow

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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

Molly Bloom

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My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well.

Mirai Nagasu

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One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.

Dr. Dre

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I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

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Twins work really well in the industry because child labor laws dictate a baby, as an example, can only work for, like, an hour a day.

Cole Sprouse

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I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Sergey Brin

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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Tobias Wolff

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