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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Positive Mother Strong Friends Seem

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.

Jerome Powell

Failure Management Opportunities Risk

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

Jennifer Lopez

Women Opportunity Earrings Go Missed

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

John Hughes

Business Action Camera Train Movies

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Stanley Clarke

Technology Musicians You Know Point

I grew up in a predominantly white community - Hinsdale, Illinois - and given that, I feel blessed because I could still count my experiences with blatant racism on two hands. I thought racism was the substitute teacher picking on you because she assumes that you're a delinquent, and she doesn't know you have the highest score in the class.

Tomi Adeyemi

Community Teacher Racism Blessed You

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.

Tony Judt

Age Best Think Measure Beyond Mean

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

Tom Ford

Fashion Why Actor President Designer

Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.

Robin S. Sharma

Failure Daily Sad Time Small End

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

Robin Williams

Sad Style Bad I Can Swing Nothing

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

Maryanne Wolf

Life Brain Plastic Whole Life Span

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

Louise Gluck

Vocabulary Simplest Preferred

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Dorothy Fields

Good Together Beginning Story End