Lorrie Moore Quotes
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
Lorrie Moore
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
Carl Wilson
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
Barney Ross
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
Earl Campbell
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
Yaya Toure
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
Dan Bucatinsky
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
Malik Jackson
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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour…. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.
Kevin McCarthy
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You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.
Philip Yancey
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There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
Caroline Shaw
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
Lorrie Moore
