Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

Joyce Carol Oates

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WorkCharacterArtBetterSometimes

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Jimmy Carter

LivePeopleThinkResultAbortion

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

Joe Mantegna

MeVoiceFeelFatYouNow

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Joe Murray

SuccessArtMoneyStruggleDoing

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

Tomas Transtromer

LifeWaterJoySunSisterShip

No taxation without respiration.

Tom Feeney

WithoutTaxationRespiration

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Roger Ebert

HealthJoyHappyWorldProblems

Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all.

Ron Hall

LoveFearTimePeopleFeetHands

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

Russ

TimeWritingProudYouSayOut

Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that in some senses could be thought of as traditionally American: The idea that everybody is equal; the idea that the rights of women and men should be the same.

Mohsin Hamid

WomenMyselfMenPeopleChampion

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

Joseph Parker

MeEverythingBigPunchTakesWreck

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

Diogo Morgado

ThinkChristianSomeoneYouKnowUp

I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

Deepika Padukone

LifeFatherTodayPeopleMeThink

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