Joan Didion Quotes

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Joan Didion

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• I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • High
  • Parents

• When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• Hugo Boss is my kind of label.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Boss
  • Hugo

• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Think
  • Living

• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Crazy
  • Call
  • Meat

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • High
  • Fashion
  • Model

• I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Travel

• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Small
  • Curiosity

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• 'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Party

• Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.

  

  Jack Vance
  • May
  • Light
  • Die

• Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Literature
  • Police
  • Criticism

• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  

  Jared Polis

• I can honestly say I had the time of my life in London. I don't regret one part of it, and I have never wanted the moment to end.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Regret

• I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

  

  David Cone
  • Success
  • Popular

• In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Language
  • Books

• In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

  

  Chris Bangle
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

  

  Joan Didion