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Lorrie Moore Quotes

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Feel You Person Know Boring

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.

Work Gratitude Myself Culture Legacy

I don't think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you're a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.

Life Love Teen Think Remember You

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Childhood Ending America Acting Want

The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'

Me Hotel Bad Cards Nice Worst

The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don't really look beyond the event which you've spent four years preparing for, and so there's a bit of a comedown.

You Look Down Beyond Over High

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.

Life Racism Me My Life White Group

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

Time Lunch Makeup You Done Drains

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Me Say Difficult Always Break Role

I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body.

Janina Gavankar

Respect Culture Dance Feel You Body

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

Family You Write Tell Would Your

Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.

Trust Team Better Decisions You

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

Listening Problems Think Understand

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