Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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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.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
