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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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just throw it all out the window, and express what you feel... and it will come through that you are a technician.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
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For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.
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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
