Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Joyce Carol Oates

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LifeEndingBe TrueInevitableTrue

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

Jo Brand

ComedyYouGoBecomeNeverAlways

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

Andrei Sakharov

SocietyPoliticalCountryEconomyUp

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Maxwell Maltz

AccomplishmentBoundariesIndividual

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

John Ross Bowie

TimeYourselfSpaceMeYouLose

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

Stanley Schmidt

MeetGroupMatterAboveLikeRange

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

Tracy Lawrence

LifeLiveGreatMy LifeLookEarly

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Roy Thomson

MindAnythingLike

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Rush Limbaugh

EducationMoneyWorldDownRatLead

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

Mike McCready

BookPicturesJustReallyAmPut

I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.

Ludacris

GameBackKindFreakUsedLike

When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.'

Louis Armstrong

MomentWomanTreatThinkingHell

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

Louise Fletcher

PeopleNightLovedUncleCardsPlay

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