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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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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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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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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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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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.
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I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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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.
