Joan Didion Quotes
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
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Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
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Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
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I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
