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I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.


Dylan Moran

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BRIAN MORAN This was a nice win and hopefully it makes us No. 1 in sectionals. It also gave us the Livingston Co...
BRIAN MORAN Mark did a great job for us last year. He started some games as a sophomore and his quick feet and a...
BRIAN MORAN Mike can carry 20-25 times a game and any time you can have a quality runner like that getting those...
BRIAN MORAN To the rest of the state, Northern Virginia is a single-cell amoeba. Those of us in Northern Virgini...
BRIAN MORAN We're very pleased with our candidates. Whether it was upsetting an incumbent or taking open seats, ...
BRIAN MORAN We expect to pick up seats.
BRIAN MORAN We plan to pound away at the fact that we are the party of fiscal responsibility and investment.
BRIAN MORAN On a night like tonight, anything can happen with the weather conditions the way they were. Craig is...
BRIAN MORAN The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never...
CAITLIN MORAN Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I ...
VICTORIA MORAN What a beautiful woman. She moved with grace, she was entirely feminine, and yet, she possessed incr...
JAN MORAN What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded,...
CAITLIN MORAN When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing her...
CAITLIN MORAN In every (other) case, volcanoes have a monitor within five miles, but Crater Lake is a remote volca...
SETH MORAN All four of the public tower companies are bidding.
CLAYTON MORAN Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do w...
JASON MORAN I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is...
CAITLIN MORAN I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
CAITLIN MORAN I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
CAITLIN MORAN There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to ...
JASON MORAN Let's stop doing out-of-context, ad-hoc, survival budgets that take us nowhere except to the next cr...
CAROL MORAN I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.
MORAN ATIAS I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm t...
CAITLIN MORAN I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're s...
VICTORIA MORAN As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
JASON MORAN I want to express what's meaningful. I'm not into gimmicks. I want to make truthful music th...
JASON MORAN We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond dri...
VICTORIA MORAN The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask th...
JASON MORAN Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own s...
JASON MORAN The whole thing was conspired by Jim Hood.
MITCH MORAN It's a smart strategic move for XM because they need to answer the Howard Stern question. It's not a...
FREDERICK MORAN I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar ...
VICTORIA MORAN I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
CAITLIN MORAN We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics c...
CAITLIN MORAN It shows there is still solid underlying demand for housing and that activity this year, while slowi...
MICHAEL MORAN