Lorrie Moore Quotes
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.
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I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.
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I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'
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I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
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I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.
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This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.
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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
