Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Joyce Carol Oates

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NatureHistoryMeThinkTragedy

No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.

Joanna Krupa

LifeMeJudgePlaceJudge MeOwn

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

John Hughes

CoolDoingYouWantRightUp

I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.

John Schlesinger

EasyFeelingKnowRunBrilliantHim

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Sissela Bok

PowerChildhoodSpaceLearnMystery

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

Rob Zombie

GreatThinkYouWhiteWorstReason

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.

Robbie Williams

FriendI AmBrotherPeopleMeDoor

As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey.

Mike Joyce

BetterNobodyThanPerformer

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Mickey Rooney

WomenShoesWalkMeBuyAway

I look like a child - and I love it!

Monique Coleman

LoveChildLookLikeI Love

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

Lu Wei

GovernmentInternetEnoughChinese

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Joyce Meyer

GodWhyYearsOutDaysExpect

Democratic Latin America limps sideways because it can't run ahead. There are too many entry barriers to the poor, the innovative, and those without access to credit.

Denise Dresser

AmericaCreditRunAheadPoor

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