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Lydia Davis Quotes

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Small Way Always Normal Big

When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!

School High School Long Rules Lying

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

Jennifer Ellison

Heart Dance Born Follow Out Sing

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

Education School War People You Go

The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

Growth Key Tax Growing Economy Your

There's no shame in being a support act for anyone. It's been extremely beneficial for us to be allowed onstage for any of the artists we've toured with, and we've gotten some big exposure from them sharing their crowds with us in the past.

Past Support Sharing Shame Act Big

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Happy Be Happy Said Dead He Until

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

Work Together Man Creative Me Ideas

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Deborah Eisenberg

Work Day Beginning Sleep End Fall

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Time Thinking You Too Much Done Get

I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.

Time Woman Red Grace Hair House

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

History Past People Moral Living

I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.

James Vincent McMorrow

Knowledge Think Guitar You Say Talk

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