Lorrie Moore Quotes
I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
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I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.
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Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
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I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'
