Lorrie Moore Quotes
Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I want to serve the people.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.
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At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.
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I love nursing my babies. It's such a special bond for me.
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Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
