Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
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The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.
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The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.
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I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, 'The Ultimate Rush.' I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go hang gliding, so that's good.
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I hope she will be real proud. My ultimate goal is have it performed for the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin.
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Our finding suggests that high resolution sensory maps that can quickly and accurately handle many different kinds of sensory features are an essential hallmark of high sensory acuity, in whatever mode of perception is most important to the animal. It makes sense that mammals develop intricate sensory maps in the sensory system that is crucial for them--like vision is for us or the whisker system is for rodents.
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Gallery owners know me, but they never say, 'Hello,' because they don't want other people to know they know me, ... I have a little flag on my head saying, 'I'm the guy doing the fake things.'
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I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the face of a 19th-century painting, so we had to do a grotesque painting. It was done in four days.
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You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
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What this means is, if someone from another state is looking for the nearest Joslin Diabetes Center for care, they can come to Las Vegas. This is a major benefit to the community because it puts diabetes in the spotlight here, and people will get better care because of that spotlight no matter where they receive treatment.
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Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.
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I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
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Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.
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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.
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I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.