Lorrie Moore Quotes
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.
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All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
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I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
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Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.
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The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
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If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
