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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Pain Winning Feeling Boxing More

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Anatoly Chubais

Plan Young Committee University Each

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Tony Campolo

Group Christianity Only

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

Roger Ebert

Day Think Television Opening Out

The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

Ruth Negga

Good Character Yourself You Play

Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.

Julia Holter

People Saying Think Thinking Know

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Joyce Meyer

Education Everyone Compete Playing

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

Christopher Parker

Good People Ideas Think You Know

Moms, take it from me: do not buy your baby too many shoes when they're so tiny, because their feet grow every week.

Ciara

Shoes Me Baby Feet Grow Week

I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy.

Bristol Palin

Day Find Nice One Day Guy Rush

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

Allen West

Integrity Excellence Honor Country

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.

Thomas Frey

Life Future Motivation Not Knowing

I love designing, and I still do it.

Ridley Scott

Love Still Designing I Love