Joan Didion Quotes
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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I always wanted to be a star.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.
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When I think of [my relationship with Gable], considering the way it started, it was curious. We became devoted to each other. We weren't lovers-he was in love with Carole Lombard...we eventually became more like siblings. Nobody believes that and you can understand why...but our relationship was unique. Oh he sometimes gave me the macho routine when people were watching but he changed when we were alone.
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
