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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Culture Blonde Biography Myth Baker

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Individuality Existence Necessary

If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

Andrew Lincoln

Cool Story Think Feel Help You

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

John Hickenlooper

Future Past City Will More Denver

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Love Success Business Best Luck You

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Jeff Sessions

Intelligence Believe Important Our

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

Stephen Cambone

Think Security Focused Group Reason

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

Steven Wright

Funny Mind Remember Trying Looks

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

Mary Lou Retton

Shoe First Right Same Dressing Room

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin

Women Performance Race Cost Only

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

Douglas Alexander

People You Newspaper Talk Read Most

With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.

Chris Doubek

Ideas Action Doing Trying You Same

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Words Television Jump Sometimes Plot