Joan Didion Quotes

Nothing is critic-proof.

Joan Didion

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• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Morning
  • Feel

• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Attention

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Happy
  • Boring
  • Then

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Play

• I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Work
  • Working
  • Lucky

• I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Things
  • Being

• I believe in God. And I believe in the custody of God vested in kings. And I'm very happy to have your name as 'King.' It's the King!

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Happy

• Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven’t had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • True
  • Famous

• In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

  

  Warren Farrell

• To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God

• Don't talk it, walk it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica

• I will cherish this as a reminder of the extraordinary, incredible outpouring of people who demanded their voice be heard in this last election so we can look forward to amazing change in this country.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Country
  • Amazing

• In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Children
  • Today
  • Strong

• I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Listening
  • My Life

• A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of humanity. . .

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Belief

• I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• Nothing is critic-proof.

  

  Joan Didion