Joan Didion Quotes
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
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My private life stays private.
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I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.
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You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.
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When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.
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I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
