Joan Didion Quotes
We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
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My weight has always been a struggle for me.
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There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
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A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
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When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
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We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.
