Lorrie Moore Quotes

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Lorrie Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WalkMeGoodbyeWorldYouKind

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

Melanie Mayron

WomenMenNumbersScreenSomething

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

Tracey Gold

I AmActingAm

I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.

Tracee Ellis Ross

GoodBodyWantOthersListenSteak

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Mary Ellen Mark

ThinkThoughtPictureYouLookMore

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

Michaela Coel

LifeChristianitySecularGivenTook

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Don Imus

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I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Dick Murphy

BestPoliticsPeopleThinkAmerica

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Bobby Bowden

BusinessManSayingEnoughLongTwo

I'm not here to be a puppet, if you will.

Brock Osweiler

YouWillHerePuppet

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

Sylvia Plath

LearningMotherBeachMeGreenWave

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Phil Collins

AppreciateLanguageCountryWhatever

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

Susan Egan

WorkGreatTheatreCameraYouThree

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