Joyce Maynard Quotes

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Joyce Maynard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

Joan Collins

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I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.

Jessica White

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I personally think that the visibility that the Cowboys have, the kind of interest we have, is best served and best used by showing people that are contrite, know the mistakes they've made, and want to try to go in a different direction.

Jerry Jones

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The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

John Garamendi

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I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

Andris Nelsons

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In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.

Michael Dirda

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Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she's just marvelous.

Rita Moreno

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You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

Rose George

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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

Michel de Montaigne

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I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

Monica Bellucci

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I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Lord Alfred Douglas

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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.

Lois Frankel

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