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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Child Tradition You Lost

Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.

Money People Angel Year Want Seem

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

Great Always Fans Loyal Oakland Had

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

Children Time Trust Will Human Most

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

Myself Growing Up Reading Thought

If my children want to pursue their dreams, I will always support them.

Dreams Children Support Want Will

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

Life People Slow Down Know Try

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

Social Media Yourself Space World

You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

Michael Schiavo

Parents Me You Know Fighter Raised

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.

Jonny Greenwood

Funny Time Me Think You Go

Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.

Douglas Brinkley

Truth Better American View Era

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Self-Love Seems Often Unrequited

With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.

Work Good Good Work Confident Doing

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