Lorrie Moore Quotes
To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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I respect and admire the Mormon faith. And I am eternally grateful that we live in a country where we have the freedom to worship as we choose.
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Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
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Whatever success you are having will never completely fulfill you. A life of significance — of really mattering — is yours for the taking, and the process I describe in this book will work for you.
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I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.
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I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.
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To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.
