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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Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world
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Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.
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Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.
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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
