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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Writing Calm Voice Criticism Way

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Andrew Young

Change Change The World World Think

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

John Coltrane

Good Best Men Believe Grow Want

It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.

Meghan Markle

Parents Mom House Late Director

I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater.

John Lithgow

Love Time New York Back Early New

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

Stacy Schiff

Good Day Travel Desert Ship You

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

Michael Madsen

Time School Airplane Mechanic Long

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

Mitch Hedberg

Funny Upside Down Down Know Necklace

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

LL Cool J

Little Things Learn Acting I Can See

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Jean Anouilh

Politics Nothing Irreparable

I see the world through Irish eyes, and they are smiling.

Denise Morrison

Eyes World Smiling Irish See I See

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

Cicely Tyson

Support Others Own Expect Our How

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.

Nick Swardson

Stupid Comedy You Know Mean Sit