Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

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GirlBlackAmericaRoommatesKnow

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

John Cale

ValueMeRememberYouEverything

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

John Gregory Dunne

CommunityAloneTimeYouLos Angeles

I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

Anna Akana

YourselfParentsGrowing UpComedy

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

Amanda Donohoe

FamilyLoveFatherTimeConflictHe

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

Steve Nash

BestDayFightPeopleCareI Can

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

Simon Armitage

GoodMyselfDaySpaceYouSometimes

There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.

Tom Perez

LifeTexasAmericanPuerto RicoTag

Many gloat over their own troubles.

Mason Cooley

OverOwnTroublesMany

The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

Michael Moriarty

PeopleWorldAmericanNewRunHand

When you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent.

Jose Andres

SimpleYouPureEventFlavorGet

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

Donna Edwards

PowerPeopleYouI CanArgument

It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.

Deborah Eisenberg

PeopleWorldStrongPoliticalNow

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