Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
Quotes to Explore
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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Years are not important, my dear.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
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On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
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It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.
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And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.
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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I'm very content.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
