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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CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE
If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE
I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it w...
MANDY MOORE
I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
MANDY MOORE
I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I an...
MANDY MOORE
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebr...
MANDY MOORE
When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their h...
MANDY MOORE
I do think it's possible to change for the better.
MANDY MOORE
Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not ...
MANDY MOORE
It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeo...
MANDY MOORE
We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th...
MANDY MOORE
I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organizati...
MANDY MOORE
Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
MANDY MOORE
Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my expe...
MANDY MOORE
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global h...
MANDY MOORE
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school a...
MANDY MOORE
I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The fi...
MANDY MOORE
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
MANDY MOORE
People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in...
MANDY MOORE
The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not pr...
MANDY MOORE
Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potentia...
MANDY MOORE
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytel...
MANDY MOORE
I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
MANDY MOORE
No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any re...
THURSTON MOORE
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE
I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
RICH MOORE
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE
Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE
War is a perversion of sex.
ALAN MOORE
If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When y...
ALAN MOORE
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr...
ALAN MOORE
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language...
ALAN MOORE
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
ALAN MOORE
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christi...
ALAN MOORE
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i...
ALAN MOORE
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
ALAN MOORE
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...
ALAN MOORE
Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch...
ALAN MOORE
I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE
Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to wh...
SHEMAR MOORE