Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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Blood and death. That moves me.
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
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Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
