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.Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
Samuel Beckett -
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Zhuangzi -
If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
R. J. Cutler -
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller -
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.
Magnus Scheving -
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy -
I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
Vanity -
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.
Paolo Sorrentino -
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.
Fernando Botero -
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
Damon Wayans -
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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My weight has always been a struggle for me.
Octavia Spencer -
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.
Taylor Lautner -
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush -
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.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
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.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.
Beck -
A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.
Billie Piper -
There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.
Kara Goucher -
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
Ike Barinholtz -
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.
Joan Didion