Joyce Cary Quotes

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

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• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Humanity

• I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

  

  David Harewood
  • Game

• I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Town

• I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Family

• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Justice
  • Struggle
  • Civil Rights

• Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

  

  Freddie Wong

• With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

  

  Jessie Buckley

• In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Men
  • Women
  • Heart

• Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Words
  • Trump

• People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Fun
  • Famous

• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Reason
  • Belief

• A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

  

  Joyce Cary
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Novel