Joan Didion Quotes
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
Quotes to Explore
-
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
-
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
-
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
-
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
-
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
-
There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
-
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
-
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
-
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
-
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
-
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
-
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
-
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
-
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-
Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
-
I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
-
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
-
I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.
-
In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
-
Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.
-
If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.
-
There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world.
-
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
