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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It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.
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Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.
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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.
