Moira J. Moore quotes

“Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against his chest and back. I wished I had an artist's skill, that I could make renderings of him in all his states of beauty. He would never want to look at them, or even know about them. I would just like them for myself. Maybe he would want to see them when he was much older, and beautiful in a different way.”
-- Moira J. Moore

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“There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.”
-- Moira J. Moore

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.64, Penguin

#Alliteration Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details.”
-- Moira J. Moore

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.28, Penguin

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“You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win." "Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me. "Aye, but it's not working." "Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.”
-- Moira J. Moore

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.72, Penguin

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“You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?”
-- Moira J. Moore

Source : Moira J. Moore (2011). “Heroes at Odds”, p.77, Penguin

#Wine Quotes #Chocolate Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Sometimes I was so funny I couldn’t stand myself.”
-- Moira J. Moore

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “Resenting the Hero”, p.75, Penguin

#Sometimes Quotes

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”

“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”

“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.

“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

“Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

“All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.”

“A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?”

Source : "A Crash Course In Playwriting". research.alanayckbourn.net. 1993.

“I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.”