A Quote by Joyce Maynard

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Joyce Maynard

Quote Topics

Behind Behind Closed Doors Big Closed Closed Doors Doors Dramas Families Fascinate Happen Me Ordinary Quiet So-Called

Quote Author

Joyce Maynard
American - Novelist
Born: November 5, 1953

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James Lankford

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

Lewis H. Lapham

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Brenda Blethyn

Let's face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever - the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you're crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

Geoffrey Rush

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

Hugh Skinner

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Harper Lee

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

Bob Stoops

Behind closed doors, Rob is a real teddy bear, a big softie.

Ayda Field

Magic is not so much something which you do occasionally behind closed doors or in the space behind your closed eyes, but a way of living your life — a way of approaching the world you move through and everything in it.

Phil Hine

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

Luis Fonsi

If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.