Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
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composers flying native night saturday top
He's probably one of the top Native American composers working now. He's flying in from Minneapolis and will be here on Saturday night for the performance.
million number painting supposed understand worth
In the movie, the painting is supposed to be worth $100 million. No painting is worth $100 million. But for the movie, $100 million is a number that any person can understand as expensive. If you say $50 million nowadays, it's not enough.
brain brains charting exciting finding literally map traveling truly
Finding a new map in the brain is a truly exciting experience. It's a little like traveling to an unexplored island. It's literally charting new territory.
basis males
I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.
added bell dislike hemingway imitate level mainly moved ruined stylistic time tried whom writers
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
nobody understood
It was a catastrophe, of course. We had no clients, no nothing. Nobody understood the idea of doing reproductions.
artistic artists copy creating everybody good great knows lack problems quite studio tough
Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.
attending baptized church concerned family mainly raised sundays watching
I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.
brave nearly rascals reside spirit
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.
pryor richard
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
advance reviews
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
somebody soon sort
I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
sarcasm revolutionary irritating
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
despair bags rolling
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..