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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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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I might just be the luckiest girl ever.
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I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
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I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
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Sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.
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Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
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I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
