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.
Iris Apfel -
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu -
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Tatyana Ali -
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.
Verite -
I've always loved fashion.
Rachel Bilson -
I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
Zach LaVine
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Samuel Butler -
I have an Oscar on my mantel.
Irwin Winkler -
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.
Barry Corbin -
When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
Sam Shepard -
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
Olivier Megaton -
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler -
Consistency is very important when you're making films.
Ian McDiarmid -
I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
Dana Plato -
I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
Harry Bridges -
I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
Val Kilmer
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Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.
Yuri Kochiyama -
Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.
David Souter -
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.
Saint Augustine -
To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.
Ari Berk -
SPORT Magazine's All-Time All Stars (Quentin Reynolds)
Lou Gehrig -
I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
Lorrie Moore