Lydia Davis
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The fact is... MICHAEL ARRINGTON It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routine... BRUCE WILKINSON It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a... N. K. JEMISIN ROBERT DE NIRO JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH JULIAN BAGGINI We're all in the same boat. It comes down to the day. You test it out in warm-up. You have to adapt ... CHAD HEDRICK JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA LUIGI PIRANDELLO MONTEL WILLIAMS AMY CHUA TEJU COLE IRIS APFEL BONO STEPHEN HARPER The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The def... MARCIA CLARK ROBERT BYRD I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one... ZARA COX Writing 'Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle' must have been a difficult ta... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT 'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying ... TOM SCHOLZ C. JOYBELL C. History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caug... ROBERT JOHNSON QUENTIN CRISP DAVID MITCHELL BERNARD BARUCH Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the on... WAYNE ROONEY A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn... BEN KATCHOR DEYTH BANGER It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now. BILLY HIGGINS R. LEE ERMEY BETTY WHITE EDMUND WHITE BLAIR UNDERWOOD GREG GRAFFIN It's really easy to get caught up in all the catty-ness of the volleyball. BROOKE SWEAT Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it... DAVID CARRADINE TWIGGY We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us ar... VICTOR SHAMAS A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point... ALBERTO MANGUEL I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if... LIZ TROTTA ARTHUR MILLER CRAIG GROESCHEL MICHELANGELO LES BROWN JEREMY CLARKSON As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, ... VINCENT BUGLIOSI PEGGY FLEMING I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis a... BUTCH TRUCKS To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenar... DREW ROY AI WEIWEI JACQUES PEPIN EILEEN MYLES We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, bu... NATHAN WOLFE We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about ... J. A. KONRATH TONY STEWART I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. M... CALLIE KHOURI CHARLES FRAZIER MARTINA HINGIS POPE FRANCIS DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you... ARTHUR LEVITT Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that... MAUREEN CHILD We've got to come up with some better solutions. The situation now is we're in a constant state of h... HAL HARPER PRINCE There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th... BURTON CUMMINGS At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions ... CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG GRAHAM NELSON We struggled all week. We just couldn't quite get it going. We may have overlooked it a bit mentally... ALLEN TERRELL
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LYDIA CACHO I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need mu... LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'... LYDIA LUNCH I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be ... LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA MILLET I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or a... LYDIA KO LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would b... LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA SIGOURNEY LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image... LYDIA LUNCH I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats. LYDIA LUNCH Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products. LYDIA LENKER Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get s... LYDIA LEONARD To write erotic proza is not statisfactory. You are always exited but never done. LYDIA ROOD LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. LYDIA LUNCH I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction... LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She&#... LYDIA LEONARD LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely ... LYDIA LUNCH I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vag... LYDIA LUNCH I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you&#... LYDIA LUNCH Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or ... LYDIA KWA The Bond BetweenLYDIA HOWE If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say '... LYDIA LUNCH We absolutely know we were the catalyst for this. We know that if we hadn't started (our efforts), n... LYDIA CABALLERO If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' LYDIA LUNCH Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions t... LYDIA VORSTEVELD I mean, she was hysterical crying. LYDIA FERNANDEZ A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getti... LYDIA KO LYDIA MILLET Remember, cousins are forever! LYDIA HOWE LYDIA MILLET We also taught them self-reliance, courtship and sexual discipline as they head towards maturity. LYDIA KANDA Jennifer is not a criminal. LYDIA SARTAIN LYDIA MILLET I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though m... LYDIA LEONARD I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I kne... LYDIA LEONARD I'm like a one-woman protest machine. LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA MILLET If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to pl... LYDIA KO Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because ... LYDIA KO LYDIA MILLET 'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rat... LYDIA LEONARD LYDIA MILLET She said she bit him and kicked him and that's when she said she seen his tattoo on his hand and a s... LYDIA FERNANDEZ I think we need more acute care. What if you're too sick to be transferred to San Antonio? LYDIA CABALLERO The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I d... 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Why be greedy when you can have it all. 
It ends or it doesn't.
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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, stran... 
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any... 
if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong 
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It is a lie. 
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