Lydia Davis Quotes

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

Lydia Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

John Frankenheimer

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I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.

Andie MacDowell

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I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.

Meagan Good

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Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

Meg Rosoff

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Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

John Knoll

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Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

Michael Gambon

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

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People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

Simon Sinek

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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Tori Amos

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Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

Roger Mahony

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I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Mike Dirnt

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When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Dolly Parton

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