Lydia Millet Quotes

Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

Lydia Millet

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When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Jim McKelvey

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The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

Andrea M. Ghez

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Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

Jeanne Moreau

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I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Mercedes Ruehl

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I'm definitely lucky to have been included in some of the perks of my brother's connections in the fashion world. It's helpful considering I'm still like a five-year-old when it comes to shopping.

Skylar Astin

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I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Tom Jones

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I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

Ronnie Dunn

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The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past.

Rudolf Steiner

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People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

Ross Butler

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We're all funny. Humor unites us.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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Getting over the stigma of needing to appear as if I do it all myself took about 12 months. I finally realized that the only way to be a successful, happy mother, founder, wife, and daughter was to accept the help that was being offered to me.

Julia Hartz

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Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

Chris Raschka

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