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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Humor You Fall Sense Of Humor Say

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

Community Great Doing Possibilities

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Maurice Chevalier

Experience Man Feel Seventy True

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre

God Forget Out Being Exist Whole

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

President First Victim Prime June

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

Stellan Skarsgard

Performance Doing Dependent Other

I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.

Romantic Favorite Genre Biased

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Travel Think Better Burden Publicity

I don't usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.

Feet You Jump Sometimes Land Going

I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.

People Think Language Election Him

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

Mother Sick Now Meet She Her

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

Rick Springfield

Love True Love Writing True Old

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

City Hands Old Jerusalem Our

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