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Lydia Davis Quotes

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 15, 1947

Topics

Walking Find Difficult Classroom

I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

Good Sleep People Jealous Someone

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

Life Age Opportunity Football Me

My mum had 'Cosmopolitan' magazine as a subscription and 'Vogue,' and every month I would be like, 'I wanna be that girl in that ad.'

Girl Month Would Like Vogue Every

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

Love Food Tea Fake Holidays Say

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

Life Hope Community Yourself Climb

I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can get. I always assumed I was going to be an actor. I don't know why. I didn't have any reason to think that. In fact, when I finally did try it, when I was in college, I was really bad at it and didn't enjoy it.

David Wroblewski

College Think Enjoy You Bad Country

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

Imagination Reality You Sometimes Up

Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do.

Work Struggle People Limits Play

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Nature Creative Think Key You Tell

I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.

Time Fun Me Long Long Time Bigger

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate healthcare to those that can. Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations.

Problems Rich Poverty Healthcare New

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Consultants Our Use

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