Lorrie Moore Quotes
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.Lorrie Moore
Quotes to Explore
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
Fabrizio Moreira -
When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Maisie Williams -
I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
Gautam Gambhir -
My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan -
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Zendaya -
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
Orhan Pamuk -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Captain Beefheart -
Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
S. Ansky -
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead -
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
Laini Taylor
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Sam Jaeger -
'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
Fionn Whitehead -
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin -
I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
Bea Arthur -
I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-Pain
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Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
Anderson Cooper -
It was an amazing experience, a dream come true, to sing and act alongside Prince and become dear friends with all the members of The Revolution while filming 'Purple Rain.'
Apollonia Kotero -
I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.
Anne Bronte -
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
F. Sionil Jose -
We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.
Jeff Merkley -
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
Lorrie Moore