Christopher Moore Quotes

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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  • Independent

• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
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  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Nobody

• It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
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• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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  • Want
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• Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

  

  Larry Drake
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• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
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• I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

  

  Gary Krist
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• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  

  Tara Reid
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• Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

  

  Gail Porter
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• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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• One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Why is partying and having a good time bad?

  

  Tara Reid
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• I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!

  

  Amy Chua
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• All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray. They got older, wiser, and made different choices.

  

  Akiva Schaffer
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• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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• Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

  

  Adam West
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• You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

  

  Christopher Moore
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