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

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Say

• Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Mind
  • May
  • Free

• If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Culture
  • Moment
  • Trump

• Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • You
  • Fame

• 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
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Political
  • Marriage
  • Years

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

  

  Vanity
  • Want
  • Never
  • 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
  • Movie
  • Think
  • End

• 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
  • World
  • Best
  • Child

• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Key

• 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
  • Moving
  • Start
  • Gym

• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • True
  • Proud

• My weight has always been a struggle for me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Always
  • Struggle

• 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
  • Up
  • Live
  • House

• 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
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• 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
  • High
  • Small
  • Films

• 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
  • She
  • Truth
  • Today

• It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • House
  • Animal

• Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

  

  Cilla Black

• Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

  

  William Falconer
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Perfection

• When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Know
  • Better
  • Get

• 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