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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Imagination Mind Control Emotions

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback, they say, 'This is unbelievable.' And the writer says, 'Well, actually, the events are based in real life. This actually happened.'

Life Writing Story Giving Someone

Before I was on 'Idol,' I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It's the best feeling ever.

Jessica Sanchez

Work Home Best Day Travel Long

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Johannes Tauler

Love Soul Desire Outside Turn Gifts

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

Live Business Ethics World Hell New

Yoga is the best holistic workout and body toner there is. It sorts out a chaotic mind and calms the body - it is how I de-stress - or stop myself getting stressed in the first place.

Myself Best Mind Body Place Stop

When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

Myself Treat Eat Everything Get

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Love Age Getting Older Colors Reach

Nothing was ever handed to me. I mean nothing.

Me Nothing Mean Ever Handed

Me, personally, Michael Rooker - I'm not a good victim.

Good Me Victim Personally Michael

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Plan Price Now Inconvenience Vague

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

Moment Day Social Media Forward Bad

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

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