Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

WorkCrazySomethingIdeaNo Idea

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Jeremy Northam

TimeMyselfPeopleFriendsChoose

The man who runs may fight again.

Menander

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I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.

Michael Arden

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They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline.

Torrey Smith

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I don't know what the fans expect out of these fighters, but I know what I expect out of myself. And that's go out there, beat people up, and just be me.

Robbie Lawler

MyselfPeopleMeGoKnowOut

A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you're doing a sitcom, people don't give you a lot of credit, because you've got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it's successful.

Mike O'Malley

PeopleWinDoingCreditYouDrama

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Michael Pollan

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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Molly Ivins

FreedomRidiculeRejoiceOutrageous

I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.

Jason Bateman

CharacterMyselfYouFindI CanTry

I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.

Clemantine Wamariya

GirlHopeMeBelieveLearnAbility

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

Anthony Doerr

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