Christopher Moore Quotes
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
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Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
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Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.
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There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
