"I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!"

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Source : Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

Lydia Davis

#Dream Quotes #Fun Quotes #Peas Quotes

“While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.”

Source : Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick
“Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought then. The portrait was a weapon, too. Of seduction. In it Strider was utterly naked and whisking through the cloads like an avenging angel. He was holding a teddy bear in one hand and a stream of pink ribbons in the other. Anya had given him the nearly life-size monstrasity as a joke. But the joke was on her. He loved the thing.”
“He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.”
“There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.”
“I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.”
“Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.”

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