Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even - except I don't spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.
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I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
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What do you want to do with the Communist Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.
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When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
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Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
