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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Life Family Love Writing Reading

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

Robert H. Schuller

Church Christmas Easter Built Norman

I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.

Think Trouble Important Street Out

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

Music Bones Drag Costume Background

The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji town is an ancient fishing practice deeply rooted in their culture and their practices and supports their livelihoods.

Culture Fishing Practice Place Takes

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

Opportunity You Years Decide Compete

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

Wife Baseball Me Game Said Over

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Want Office Box Rather Than Grant

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

Art Yourself Think Care Take Care

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Without Merit Awkwardness Mere

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

Father I Am Pizza Chef Upset Menu

Earlier, I thought it would be better for an actress to marry a businessman or a person from other profession, as it offers more stability. But then I realised that if I marry someone who doesn't belong to the same industry , he wouldn't understand my erratic schedules and also the norms of the glamour industry.

Divyanka Tripathi

Thought Better Someone Person More

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Live Age Old Age Thought Present

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