Joan Didion Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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How does one get bored of life?
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.
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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.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.
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Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
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By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.
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The accident for sure was one of the most important experiences of my life, during the course of my rehabilitation I had people who were exactly what I needed to be inspired.
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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
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I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
