Lorrie Moore Quotes
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North -
If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
Hansie Cronje -
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis -
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.
Vanilla Ice -
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken -
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
A. Scott Berg
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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.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
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.
Sally Hawkins -
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.
Carlisle Floyd -
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
Victoria Wood -
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.
Sada Thompson -
I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.
Hansika Motwani
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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.'
Sam Heughan -
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.
Halston Sage -
As a rule, one should never place form over content.
Manuel Puig -
After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso -
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
Barbara Bush
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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
Irvine Welsh -
I really love making people laugh.
Bob Saget -
The process of coming out was critical to getting where we are today: coming out to our friends, our family, our co-workers, God forbid, to our clients.
Fred Eychaner -
When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.
Louis Leterrier -
I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.
Leslie Odom, Jr. -
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
Lorrie Moore