Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

Joyce Carol Oates

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There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales.

Jim Murphy

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I don't like the pressure of TV.

Jim Nabors

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I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

Jodi Benson

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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Jill Scott

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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Johannes Tauler

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I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.

Andrew Haigh

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In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Michael Chabon

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It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.

Stephane Rolland

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If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Shirley Williams

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There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded.

Rob Lowe

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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

Michael Stipe

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