Christopher Moore Quotes

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

Christopher Moore

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No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Jimmy Connors

LifeMomMy LifeSaidGrandparents

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Joe Klein

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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

FamilyPoorHardSoldierComeSlums

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

Michael Douglas

WorldYouCelebrityLeadersAccess

Some artists are able to pull off a very form-fitting, painted-on look that's very modern, but I have actually come around to embracing the idea that that these costumes are more like athletic uniforms than high-tech skin suits.

Stuart Immonen

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The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Sun Myung Moon

PowerPresentNewStageMustOur

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

Tom Perez

OpportunitySocietyFreeStrongTrue

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

Roy Blunt

BetterCongressWayResponsibleOut

For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up of generally smaller businesses than fashion. The human losses were more quickly noticed.

Michael Shnayerson

FashionMoreHumanReasonUpLosses

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

Jon Tenney

GoodThinkBackGoStageI Think

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Dolly Parton

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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