Joyce Maynard Quotes

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Joyce Maynard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyMoneyTravelComedyTragedy

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

Joe Kaeser

UpPrudenceMustMixGestures

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

WorkBestDeadSomeBest Work

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

Tori Amos

HusbandMuseWellGuess

I love to get books, because I love to read.

Martina McBride

LoveBecauseGetBooksReadI Love

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Miriam Toews

MyselfCultureFeelWantAuthority

Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.

Donald Trump

GreatJobPeopleMindArroganceSay

If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philosophical issue. It just makes economic sense.

Christine Lagarde

MenAmericaCountryIndiaMoralUp

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

Cofer Black

WordsWarAmericanOwnAgainstHe

What needs to be done is that the digital initiatives that we had started, that those get the same kind of focus, and that we now disincentivize the use of cash. If you're going to slide back into the ways that we had before this demonetization impact, then you really won't get the benefits.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

FocusImpactYouBackDoneKind

I'm not trying to walk away from responsibility or anything like that, but I think there's a bunch of people on TV who get trust simply for being on TV.

Wyatt Cenac

ResponsibilityTrustWalkPeopleGet

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Prince

LifeMusicTimePeopleThinkYou

Even as a child, I would get film offers, and all my friends would tease me saying, 'You will also be an actor like your father,' or 'Don't forget us.' I always took it as a joke, but subconsciously, I felt maybe this was my true calling.

Tiger Shroff

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