Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Joyce Carol Oates
Quotes to Explore
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Xun Kuang
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
Dan DeCarlo
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
Ralph Steadman
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
Kailash Kher
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
H. P. Lovecraft
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
Samantha Barks
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
Sam Hunt
