Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'Wren Scott -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz -
It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
Mandy Moore -
I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
Mackenzie Astin -
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
M. J. Rose
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia -
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran -
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
Garret Dillahunt -
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Karin Slaughter -
I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank -
'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.
Becky G
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali -
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
Candice Patton -
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore -
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
Gary Bauer -
And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
Rain
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Andy Grove -
We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
Colum McCann -
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
David Herbert Donald -
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
Fredrik Bajer -
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Adolf Hitler -
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Joyce Carol Oates