Joyce Maynard Quotes

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Joyce Maynard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.

Joe Carnahan

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I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.

Jessica Chastain

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I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

Jenny McCarthy

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I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.

John Gourley

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My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family.

Stellan Skarsgard

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A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

Stacey Dash

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Chinese awards are always given to teams, but foreign awards are different.

Tu Youyou

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When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.

Robert Englund

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The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.

Mary MacLane

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There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible.

Douglas Trumbull

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I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

Shia LaBeouf

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