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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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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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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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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You kinda don't know what's going to make a good song. You've got to shoot around in the dark for a little while.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
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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.
