Joan Didion Quotes
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.
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I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
