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 don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
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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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Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
Lydia Ko
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If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.
Doris Roberts
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I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
Joe Mantegna
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There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British audience to go crazy, simply by them entering the stage because they had a hit record. It just doesn't happen. That happens in America.
Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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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