Joan Didion Quotes
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Every reader his or her book.
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
