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 hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
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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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Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.
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I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.
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Fearless in honesty, gentle yet just, He warmly can love, and can hate; Nor will he bow down, with his face in the dust, To Fashion's intolerant state;
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With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
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That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
