"She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Way Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.”
“I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.”
“This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this...”
“I havenÂ´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that IÂ´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.”
“... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".”
“People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it”
“Into every life a little rain must fall.”

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