Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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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.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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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.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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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.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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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.
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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.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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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.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.
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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.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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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.
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I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.
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There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
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In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
