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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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 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'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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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
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For those few of you who never heard of 'The Secret,' it's a worldwide best selling book touting the benefits of positive and affirmative thinking, and sending good energy out into the world.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
