Joan Didion Quotes
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
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Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
