Lorrie Moore Quotes
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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I've always loved fashion.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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I have an Oscar on my mantel.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
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I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.
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I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.
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'Do you understand what’s going on?''Not at all,' he shouted back. 'I can almost prove this can’t be happening.'
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We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.
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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
