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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Education Opportunity Hope Way

If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.

Joe Bonamassa

You Achieve Working Hard Hard Answer

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

Jeremy Scott

Family Food Money Church Born Kind

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

John Green

Character Great Day I Am Body Young

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Melanie Laurent

Hate Me Now Enemies Just Made

When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment - a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson's building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.

Stephen Curry

Shoes Me Mom Building Help Place

Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

Steve Bannon

War Problem Party Civil War Here

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.

Steven Blum

Good Loyalty Money Me Influence

We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.

Tony Goldwyn

Women Wisdom Experience Stand Up

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Rob Brydon

Think Go Done Hopeless First Top

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Mary Lambert

Time Think Scary I Think Which

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Mike Nichols

Life Power Week You More Saw

I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

Louis Oosthuizen

Fun Wind Golf Enjoy More Up