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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Classic Hard Always Favorite Many

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Sad Great People Win Story Think

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

Life Enjoy You Person Want First

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

Art Architecture Crazy Start You

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Car Nothing Understand Will Sense

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.

Better Survival Career Others Over

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Stephen Malkmus

Mission Write Desperate Stuff Chart

When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.

Women Service Walk Men Speak Unique

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Woman Man She Her He Ignores

I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show.

Life School American Mean First Out

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

I Am Singing Find Now Little Older

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Business Gentleman Fall Him Axe Us

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

Go Movies Because Like Films

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