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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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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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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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.
