Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

Joyce Carol Oates

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ArtI AmPeopleConflictLookingGo

Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

Joe Wurzelbacher

BeenManyPartSelloutSinceTimes

I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.

Andy Biersack

ScienceKnowRockRocketRoll

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

Ann Cleeves

BeautifulMeLovedBeautiful Place

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

PowerDoneAbilityThingsGet

The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.

Martin Rees

TimeCulturePastPeopleWorldNow

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

RedBlueYellowAmazingWriting

It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Jordan Peterson

BestPeopleAdmitLeftInterest

Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame.

Cory Booker

SupportPeopleCelebrateConsequences

Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?

Coco Rocha

BasketballFashionBasketball Player

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

Aron Ralston

LifeFamilyTodayMy LifeImportant

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

Audrey Tautou

MeLawPictureYouChoiceNewspaper

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

Aubrey de Grey

WorkBestMeProblemFindingWrong

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