Joan Didion Quotes
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy'Than cells and gibbets for 'the man.'
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
