Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

Joyce Carol Oates

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When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.

Andre Leon Talley

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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

John Lasseter

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Ebooks had to happen.

Jeff Bezos

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The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

Stanley R. Jaffe

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If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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A marriage can go wrong at any time.

Trinny Woodall

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Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.

Tom Drury

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I'm a vulnerable guy.

Rodney Crowell

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Working with BJ The Chicago Kid was amazing.

Jay IDK

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Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

Joseph Brodsky

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When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

Jon Favreau

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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

Bonnie Hunt

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