Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
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I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'
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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
