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I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension.
MARK ANDREW POE Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Some may have ties to Lawrence County, but most have not.
MILTON SMITH I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in t...
KATE MICUCCI My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Just hanging out and spending time with my girlfriend would be enough for me, if she wants to get me...
BRANDON FRYE I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
SAM CLAFLIN I am asking the people of Lawrence County to elect me county judge.
DALE FREEMAN Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . ...
YOWERI MUSEVENI I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may.
CHARLES DICKENS Some decisions I am not just sure on and when the whistle blows I am not sure what is going to happe...
KEVIN SHEEDY Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
T.E. LAWRENCE I am the captain of my own crunch.
MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF I am the Captain of my own life.
LEXIS DE ROTHSCHILD I am the captain, but I am not batting for everyone in the side and I am not bowling for everyone,
RICKY PONTING I know my wife is going to be anxious to see me. I'll be happy to get home on time if Captain Wether...
BILL SHEPHERD I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY I am not here to help you. You may be here to be helped, but I am not. I am just enjoying my thing. ...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.
STUART PEARCE I've been before so I am just going to budget carefully this time.
DIANE POELKER I just want to continue the way I am going.
SACHIN TENDULKAR I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.
MICHAEL SCOTT I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
JOHNNY DEPP I am not going to do anything right away. I do have a dental appointment but for the most part I am ...
DEAN LYNDEN Water trotted is as good as oates.
GEORGE HERBERT I am just focusing on one match at a time.
CHEN LONG I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS I think it's something that (Hitchcock) and some of the players felt that, with some of what's been ...
DERIAN HATCHER I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.
DANIEL JOHNS I just laughed when I heard it. To have Lawrence mentioned with Duke, Pittsburgh, and Florida just d...
JOHN THARP I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where ...
TERRELL OWENS We are going to have to live with high energy prices for some time. It may be a new reality.
ADRIENNE WARREN I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
JOHNNY DEPP In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then s...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I want...
KEN FOLLETT I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goa...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I am just happy to get my feet wet. I just need some reps to get better and Coach Fisher has my back...
PACMAN JONES I am going to be pretty kick ass by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!
ROSE MCGOWAN For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office wit...
YOON AHN For the last five-six months, I have been making runs in both domestic and Test cricket. I also scor...
SOURAV GANGULY You quit your house and country, quit your ship, and quit your companions in the tent, saying, “I ...
ANNIE DILLARD I said, Mokhtar, I am not going to America for tourism. I am going on some very important and danger...
AHMED RESSAM Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be on...
SHARAD PAWAR I just heard a commotion and came outside to see what was going on.
KEVIN CAMPOS When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not...
RAKUL PREET SINGH I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I...
JESSE VENTURA A quote isn't a quote until that quote is quotably quoted by and official Quotesman
I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question
I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
I AM TIMEPIECE I wish there was an edit button on Life because sometimes we don't realize the mistakes we've made u...
I AM TIMEPIECE Life are full of memories, capture them
I AM TIMEPIECE I don't fit in because I was born to stand out
I AM TIMEPIECE I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
LINFORD CHRISTIE I may be no better, but at least I am different.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I am the captain of this ship! I have control of what goes on and what comes in. For I am the master...
PHILIP T. M. It's not like I came over on some Brazil model truck and now that it's the Belgians' time, I am goin...
FERNANDA TAVARES I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
EDGAR MEYER We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and st...
HARRY S TRUMAN I can be in some of the happiest situations and my mind drifts off to her. It's hard. It's just been...
AMBROSIA PRUDHOMME Yeah, I'm going to try and play my best regardless of who I play. And seeing that he's the Ryder Cup...
ZACH JOHNSON I was doing some guiding and working for my father just outside of Los Angeles. I used to fish some ...
JAMES NIGGEMEYER I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to co...
DAVID LLOYD A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and tu...
NATE RUESS I feel like I could pitch. But at the same time, [the team] is going to be cautious and I can deal w...
ZACH DUKE We'll do our best. We'll have a team meeting and just say that we are there and they should be there...
GREG SAND I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
GAUTAM GAMBHIR I am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I've faced on centre court wi...
BORIS BECKER I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to...
JEN LANCASTER Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
LITTLE RICHARD When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I...
EDEN HAZARD By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astro...
DAVID MACKAY Universities need to get further in touch with things going on outside the ivory towers. At the same...
DAVARIAN BALDWIN It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my tim...
SASHA COHEN I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that...
SHELBY LYNNE I'm going to vote 'no' because I recognize the concerns of the neighborhood. I do have some residual...
DAVID HUDSON I am the captain of this ship! I have control of what's goes on or in.
PHILIP T. M. You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am to...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes i...
DAVID LETTERMAN I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returnin...
LESLEY GARRETT I may be mystique in your sight but the truth is I am just weird. I don't go along the crowd because...
KEZIAH RUTH D. LINGCO There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can...
KRISTEN STEWART Unfortunately, I think it's going to be that way for some time.
MARGARET GARCIA He's definitely a leader on this team. He's been here, probably outside of Frank, the longest on thi...
AARON ROWAND That 3-2 zone gave us some trouble. We broke it up last time with some good shots outside, but we di...
ANGIE LUCIER The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and...
JULIA MANCUSO I think there will be a large turnout outside Iraq and expect the number of voters outside will be m...
HAMDIEH HUSSEINI It is so good to be outside. Playing in the gym is so different and it's going to take a while. Toda...
EMILY CEDERHOLM If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
COUNTEE CULLEN I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It's an emotional time right now because I am so tired. It's great to be done with the season and to...
EMILY BRYDON I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassion...
GARTH NIX I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say ...
TEA LEONI I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppos...
MARA WILSON It's going to take some time. I can't just come in and be like Michael Jordan after three years of n...
DARKO MILICIC I am me, whoever that may be.
DAN ARMANDO Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get ther...
GEORGE A. FORD Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get t...
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LAWRENCE OATES You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I'm interested in playing, not working.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathe...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't know anything about music.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're the...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enoug...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starvi...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at nigh...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man t...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train mysel...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of ev...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
CAPTAIN JAMES I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Effective today, all checkpoints at entry points towards NCR will be pulled out due to the improved ...
CAPTAIN ZAGALA They [PSG troops] left for Crow valley for test firing training at 4 a.m. yesterday [Tuesday]. They ...
CAPTAIN ZAGALA We continue to be on red alert We are still awaiting the assessment of our commanders.
CAPTAIN ZAGALA We are not taking any chances. We will not leave any stone unturned. We're doing this also for their...
CAPTAIN ZAGALA This is an authorized troop movement. There is no reason to fear.
CAPTAIN ZAGALA This is the largest organized crime and gambling case in Fairfax County's history.
CAPTAIN VICE They were picking up bets, dropping off winnings. They also were involved with intimidating people, ...
CAPTAIN VICE They were well established when we started the investigation so it's safe to assume this had been go...
CAPTAIN VICE It was clear early on that these individuals were involved in a large operation involving gambling, ...
CAPTAIN VICE Maybe the owner's on the front porch wondering why you are here. And we have to explain to them we g...
CAPTAIN MCKENZIE I can't tell you how many times.
CAPTAIN MCKENZIE You try to sleep when you can because you might be up all night.
CAPTAIN MCKENZIE But the calls that are the worst for us are the malicious false calls where someone calls the fire d...
CAPTAIN MCKENZIE As savage as a bear with a sore head.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT All zeal, Mr Easy.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT Every man paddle his own canoe.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT the problem at this point is that there is a problem.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know th...
CAPTAIN SENSIBLE Big Eyed Beans From Venus
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
CAPTAIN CHIEF You can't shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he's done.
CAPTAIN PERVERTO An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want a...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't do lullabyes.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac...
ADAM OATES The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
JOHN OATES Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
ADAM OATES I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point...
ADAM OATES You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no dif...
ADAM OATES Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
ADAM OATES I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
ADAM OATES Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ba...
ADAM OATES I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy th...
ADAM OATES When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
JOHN OATES I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ...
JOHN OATES Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where pe...
JOHN OATES In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doe...
JOHN OATES I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
JOHN OATES To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
JOHN OATES You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, ...
JOHN OATES 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riche...
JOHN OATES If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the app...
JOHN OATES When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my gu...
JOHN OATES I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
JOHN OATES Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly ...
JOHN OATES My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
JOHN OATES I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high...
JOHN OATES The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ...
JOHN OATES I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ...
JOHN OATES I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ...
JOHN OATES Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h...
JOHN OATES You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ...
JOHN OATES I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea...
JOHN OATES Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
JOHN OATES My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
JOHN OATES I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J...
JOHN OATES Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
JOHN OATES A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
JOHN OATES There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a...
JOHN OATES If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'We...
JOHN OATES Love is just like the flower; it has hidden depths that we rarely ever explore. Beneath the surface ...
CAROL OATES Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage st...
JOHN OATES I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
JOHN OATES Sebastian tapped his index finger on the polished wood thoughtfully. Yes, it was a universal truth: ...
CAROL OATES The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off....
JOHN OATES I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like...
JOHN OATES A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and beli...
CAROL OATES He would be overjoyed. To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range...
GLORIA OATES This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead.
GLORIA OATES It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and...
GLORIA OATES Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
CAPTAIN J. BROWN Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets
in the Spanish dominions, but eve...
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH The 17-year-old is being sought for questioning. We are investigating a case of culpable homicide.
CAPTAIN MALI GOVENDER This is especially impressive because we have field artillery soldiers doing MP work and still ranke...
CAPTAIN COREY WISE But the calls that are the worst for us are the malicious false calls where someone calls the fire d...
CAPTAIN CHARLES MCKENZIE Right now, if you commit triple homicide or write a $500 bad check, you have to be housed together.
CAPTAIN NATHAN JOHNS All zeal, Mr Easy.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT As savage as a bear with a sore head.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT Every man paddle his own canoe.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT They were well established when we started the investigation so it's safe to assume this had been go...
CAPTAIN DAVID VICE The officer on the ground may not understand which corner and from what direction. The real-time vid...
CAPTAIN RANDAL QUAN Ten empty cartridges and one spent bullet was found on the scene.
CAPTAIN JABULANI MDLETSHE The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem
CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW Whether it's a large chance or a small chance, it's a chance, and so, it's an urgent situation.
CAPTAIN PAUL MCDONOUGH Maybe the owner's on the front porch wondering why you are here. And we have to explain to them we g...
CAPTAIN CHARLES MCKENZIE They [PSG troops] left for Crow valley for test firing training at 4 a.m. yesterday [Tuesday]. They ...
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA This is an authorized troop movement. There is no reason to fear.
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA The community at large were angry about the incident and said that it was a disgrace.
CAPTAIN THOZAMA SOLANI It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT When she refused, the man allegedly slapped her and thereafter raped her.
CAPTAIN MALI GOVENDER The Bravo Battery was the only unit without any family problems or soldier problems raised to the br...
CAPTAIN COREY WISE Boating is a wonderful and relaxing pastime, however it is not without its hazards.
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER Police will be deployed in terms of a needs and risk analysis and where possible, also in those area...
CAPTAIN DENNIS ADRIAO We don't know how they are going to measure [compliance with the decree] and what they will use as a...
CAPTAIN RANDAL QUAN It was clear early on that these individuals were involved in a large operation involving gambling, ...
CAPTAIN DAVID VICE We continue to be on red alert We are still awaiting the assessment of our commanders.
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA Grand Turk Island is so named because it is the largest island in the Turks Islands, which is the sm...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER They will appear in court for their bail application, but they are in custody now in King William's ...
CAPTAIN THOZAMA SOLANI I'm hoping technology will allow us to use the PDA as monitors for real-time video. When a helicopte...
CAPTAIN RANDAL QUAN Effective today, all checkpoints at entry points towards NCR will be pulled out due to the improved ...
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA We are not taking any chances. We will not leave any stone unturned. We're doing this also for their...
CAPTAIN RAMON ZAGALA We're seeing more and more residential sprinkler systems, where people are putting them in their hom...
CAPTAIN PAUL MCDONOUGH We would hope that all of them have been replaced. But based on the numbers, that's probably not the...
CAPTAIN PAUL MCDONOUGH They can miss a lot of people such as migrant workers or transients that Maury County has been bless...
CAPTAIN NATHAN JOHNS We are looking at various possibilities as to how the device got there, including that it was picked...
CAPTAIN MALI GOVENDER One suspect was shot with a shotgun and sustained severe injuries....
CAPTAIN JABULANI MDLETSHE Ecstasy pills worth more than R10-million can be manufactured from it.
CAPTAIN DENNIS ADRIAO This is the largest organized crime and gambling case in Fairfax County's history.
CAPTAIN DAVID VICE They were picking up bets, dropping off winnings. They also were involved with intimidating people, ...
CAPTAIN DAVID VICE At this time, pending investigation, it appears speed was a cause in the accident and the driver app...
CAPTAIN DARREL BROUSSARD The driver, Brittany Anderson, was pronounced dead at the scene by Liberty County Justice of the Pea...
CAPTAIN DARREL BROUSSARD If you attack everything else in life with the same conviction you did your deployment, you'll have ...
CAPTAIN COREY WISE I can't tell you how many times.
CAPTAIN CHARLES MCKENZIE You try to sleep when you can because you might be up all night.
CAPTAIN CHARLES MCKENZIE Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduat...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER Why Fight When You Can Negotiate?
CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW The Problem is Not the Problem.The Problem is Your Attitude Towards the Problem
CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think ge...
JOYCE CAROL OATES When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think get...
JOYCE CAROL OATES In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
JOYCE CAROL OATES It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
JOYCE CAROL OATES We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being los...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as sm...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that yo...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire univer...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make p...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out d...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only wor...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
JOYCE CAROL OATES In love there are two things - bodies and words.
JOYCE CAROL OATES 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terribl...
JOYCE CAROL OATES As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chron...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict...
JOYCE CAROL OATES People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and w...
JOYCE CAROL OATES This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
JOYCE CAROL OATES ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a stead...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a h...
JOYCE CAROL OATES For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've i...
JOYCE CAROL OATES 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valenti...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...
JOYCE CAROL OATES When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long...
JOYCE CAROL OATES When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the wo...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
JOYCE CAROL OATES When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged t...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire univ...
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