Lorrie Moore Quotes
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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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.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.
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I told my fans online how I hated my squeaky office chair. One day, a fan sent me a new chair. It was crazy! I still use the chair today. Pretty awesome.
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
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And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
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As governor, it is my highest priority to protect Arizona citizens.
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
