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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If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
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You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?
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I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.
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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
