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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Childhood Plants Soil Without Take

I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Life Think My Life Play Why Cat

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

Love Writing Loved Always Something

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Matthew Macfadyen

Yourself Interesting Find Know Want

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.

Myself People Me Make A Difference

The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time.

Time Point Cross Our Reference Area

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

Michelle Monaghan

Age Children Parents Growing Up Need

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Mother Confidence Poetry Reading Owe

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Douglas Coupland

Nature People Ideas Fashion Think

Honestly, I didn't like snowboarding when I was a little girl. As I got older, it became something I did with my dad. When I was 10, I knew I was good for my age, but I never felt that I was prodigy-level or anything like that.

Good Girl Age Snowboarding Never

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Christopher Buckley

Alone Children Time Child Become

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Aretha Franklin

Music Rock And Roll Rock Always Roll

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

Time King Real Only Only Time Lear

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