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Lorrie Moore Quotes

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1957

Topics

Funny Dinner Table Party Say Never

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

I Am Desire Understand Way Never Am

As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abuse you just can't seem to find in daily life. The stage is a performer's domain. You protect that domain. You are not on stage to take what's given just 'cause you're getting paid. If you are attacked, you retaliate.

Life Daily Daily Life Looking Comedy

In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?

Friend Potential Land Spread Vietnam

I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.

People Think Trying Know Sometimes

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

Culture Will More Would Approach

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

People You Gay Know Transgender

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

Great People Story Go See Watch

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

Love Wisdom Time Compassion World

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

Cory Michael Smith

Day Camera Done Nervous Where Olive

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Depression Anger Drive Doing Envy

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

Penelope Lively

Children Literature Feeling Go See

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.

Style Parenting Baby Unique High

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