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Joyce Maynard Quotes

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Me Believe Expectations Long

My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

Self Feel Never Anything Playing

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Integrity Faith Honesty Children

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

Music Rain Myself Grandfather Three

I can outbox Anthony Joshua.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Good Loneliness Smart I Am People

I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.

Parents Thought Comedy Escape Living

Don't get me wrong - our fanbase is super passionate, and I love them, but there's a difference between stalking me at the airport and just happening to see me.

Love Me Wrong Airport Passionate

I love talking about baserunning.

Rickey Henderson

Love Talking About I Love

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.

Culture America Employees Results

Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure.

Martin Compston

Love Good Adventure Me End Acting

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Respect Responsibility Treat Animals

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

People Me Plants Speak Understand

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