Joan Didion Quotes
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.
Joan Didion
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
Gavin Hood
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
L. Neil Smith
The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
Tadashi Yanai
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
Barry Jenkins
I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
Natalie Cole
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales
I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
Sally Mann
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Jack White
The White Stripes
If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
Zac Efron
I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
Wale
Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
Paris Jackson
When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
Pablo Picasso
Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.
Joe Kennedy III
I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.
Kenny Baker
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.
Joan Didion
