Joan Didion Quotes
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert -
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith -
Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
Mara Brock Akil -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
Ednita Nazario
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
Malcolm McDowell -
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
Rahm Emanuel -
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift -
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
Patrick Wilson -
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
Ireland Baldwin -
I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Ted Dexter -
We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
Pat Gillick -
I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
Rachel Cusk
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
Indra Nooyi -
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance -
Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.
Joanne Rowling -
Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
Naomi Novik -
Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
Pat Sajak -
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
Joan Didion