Joan Didion Quotes
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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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.'
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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.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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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.
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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.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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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!
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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?
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
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To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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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.
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I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever.
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The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
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Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
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Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.
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I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.
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Nothing is critic-proof.
