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Hard Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really…
- It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation…
- I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David…
- It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
- I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that…
- Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we…
- My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do… — Darren Aronofsky
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius