Joan Didion Quotes
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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Honesty is very sexy.
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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Jezanna: Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chain store jobs!
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I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.
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The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
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Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.
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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
