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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Failure Feel My Own Own Like

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

Life Live People Dinner Small Week

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Funny Simple Words Conversation Know

We can all get complacent. Especially when it comes to a job.

Job Complacent Get

I always loved watching films. I've always been active, pretending I was a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle. I remember watching 'Toy Story.' I think that was one of my first movies.

Trevante Rhodes

Power Story Think Loved Remember

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.

Heart Training School Me Grammar

I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.

Day Think Horse Every Day Way Never

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

Sports Time Stand Up Stand Wave Up

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

Mohamed El-Erian

People Global Most Assets Bonds

In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

Good Risks You Order Take Something

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

Integrity Game Nobody Else Umpires

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

Good Best Day Thoughts Good Things

When I get out on the field, it's all about football. I love football.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Love Football Out Get Field About

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