Joyce Maynard Quotes

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

Joyce Maynard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1953

Topics

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I don't really want to talk about relationships because it lets people into stuff. I'm not on Facebook for that reason.

Jodie Whittaker

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Auditions are an opportunity to play and go in there and bring the character to life. The writers have it stuck in their head and haven't seen it jump off the page.

Jodie Sweetin

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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

John Calvin

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams

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If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

Jeremy Corbyn

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There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

John Gourley

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Being a bride for Gaultier was a very special moment for me.

Andreja Pejic

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I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.

Rob Portman

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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

Russell Peters

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I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Jules Shear

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

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The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

Doug TenNapel

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