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?'

Lorrie Moore

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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.

  

  Adam Jones
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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.

  

  Kaskade
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  • Chicago
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• I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

  

  Yami Gautam
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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.

  

  Naveen Jain
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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.

  

  Fiona Dourif
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• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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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.

  

  Umberto Eco
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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.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Financial
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  • Security

• 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.

  

  Dana Plato
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  • Heart
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• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
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  • May
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• My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

  

  Eddie Huang
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  • Goal
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• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
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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.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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  • Great
  • Home

• I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
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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.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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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.'

  

  Samira Wiley
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  • Up
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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.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Star
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• I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

  

  Joan Jett
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  • Rock

• Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  

  Walt Disney
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  • Great
  • Heart

• Once I got married and had my children, I left the life. That's why I can walk away from this, i don't have to be looking for love. When you play to 100,000 people and you come off stage and there's nobody there for you, that's the saddest day of your life.

  

  Errol Brown Hot Chocolate
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  • Play

• I would never say never to returning to comedy.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Comedy

• 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?'

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money