Joan Didion Quotes
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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I love to push myself.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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In live stage, the actor lives.
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You don't write 'God Save The Queen' because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
