Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Joyce Carol Oates

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In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ArchitectureSchoolWonderWhyWrite

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

Jess Walter

WarEndDoneMoreTurnOut

I was pleasantly surprised with 'Salvage.' I went to Australia and New Zealand for the novel and met a lot of people who had experienced the earthquakes in Christchurch. They responded very strongly to the book because they had been through these natural disasters and were trying to figure out how to rebuild.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleBookTryingNewAustralia

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

Matt Cameron

RelationshipPeopleThoughtDown

It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

Jeff Nichols

MorningAloneBeing AlonePeople

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

Stan Freberg

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Somehow I wound up with the nickname 'Bitcoin Jesus,' so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.

Roger Ver

PeopleMeKnowEverythingUpExpect

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

Mary Harris Jones

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She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

Mike Judge

FlyNeverSheSameBeenSince

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

Mitt Romney

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Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

Diane Mott Davidson

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You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

Demetrious Johnson

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