Joan Didion Quotes
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
