Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

Megyn Kelly

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I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

John McEnroe

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CNN is not a television network that has a website. CNN is a full-fledged media company.

Jeff Zucker

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It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

Jeff Bridges

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You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.

Amitabh Bachchan

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Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LoveHistoryGreatPeopleResearch

People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.

Trevor Paglen

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I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

Tom Felton

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Martin Luther King Jr. could have argued that separate water fountains were too expensive, a waste of money. He would have been right about that. But cost was beside the point.

Michelle Alexander

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I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

Moira Kelly

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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Jonathan Carroll

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So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Dennis Bergkamp

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