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.Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
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I love to push myself.
Canelo Alvarez -
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton -
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
Kailash Kher -
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry -
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.
Pamela Anderson
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I've always been extremely physically active.
Danai Gurira -
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda -
It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
Madison Marlow -
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.
Ursula Burns -
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.
Larry Flynt -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
Majel Barrett -
I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
Xosha Roquemore -
I never met a kid I liked.
W. C. Fields -
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?
Calvin Trillin -
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
Federico Fellini
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I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view.
Bree Turner -
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Natalia Makarova -
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.
Andy Stanley -
A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.
David F. D'Alessandro -
I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.
Dreama Walker -
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.
Joan Didion