Lorrie Moore Quotes

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Country
  • Much

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Lake
  • Improve

• Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Good
  • Lying
  • Pressure

• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Method

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• The Internet is an amazing development.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Amazing
  • Internet

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Perfect

• There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • God
  • Single
  • Angel

• I don't care when I was born, if I'm 50, 60 or 70. It's important that I am alive.

  

  Amanda Lear
  • Important

• If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Time
  • Family
  • Hurt

• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Listening

• The strongest, richest, greatest nation in the world shouldn't leave anyone behind.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • World

• I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I find, as I'm getting older and I'm more aware of time, I can actually write all day.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Time
  • Done

• Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Community
  • Democracy
  • Empathy

• St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

  

  William Henry Danforth
  • Always
  • Innovation
  • Nation

• I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Party
  • Imagination

• Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Light
  • Everyday

• You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

  

  Lorrie Moore