Lorrie Moore Quotes
I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
