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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

America Go Where Us Get Come

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Love Myself Me Acting Try Little

If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.

Me Game Thinking You First See

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

Me Sick Victim Roles Makes

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

Lucas Papademos

Government Process Country Sound

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Father Proud Thought Interesting Him

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

Regret Done Movies Involved Being

It's wonderful to hear strings on 'Planet Claire'.

Wonderful Planet Strings Hear Claire

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.

Hero School Parents Problems You Go

Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.

Love Me Blush Helpful Wonderful

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Pauley Perrette

Memories Words Racism Deep Early Up

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

Sebastian Thrun

Mission Elite Like Stanford Failing

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Life Time Important Seriously Never

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