Lorrie Moore Quotes

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

Lorrie Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.

Meghan Daum

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What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

Meghan O'Rourke

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I don't care if I don't act anymore.

Mel Gibson

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Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

Ann Hood

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The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Sonny Perdue

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Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

Tu Youyou

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Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

Tony Curtis

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The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!

Tony Danza

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Playing at the World Cup stage excites me.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

Lou Barlow

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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.

Lisa Murkowski

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