Joan Didion Quotes
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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The tours are campaigns.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'
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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.
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'My brother ought not to have treated me thus.' True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder. (97).
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There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'
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I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
