Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Not an unconscious state Or mental chloroform without wilful return,Samadhi but extends my realm of consciousnessBeyond the limits of my mortal frameTo the boundaries of eternity,Where I, the Cosmic Sea,Watch the little ego floating in Me.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
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When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
