Lorrie Moore Quotes

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

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• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
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  • Think
  • Growing

• Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Transformation

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Child
  • Race
  • Passionate

• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Want
  • Movies

• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World
  • You
  • More

• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Music
  • Power

• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Tough

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
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• However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Work
  • Straight

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Fear
  • Pain

• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fight

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parents

• My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • People
  • Life
  • Purpose

• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Know

• Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Character

• My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Values
  • Faces
  • Optimistic

• I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

  

  Lorrie Moore
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