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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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
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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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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
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Where are they?
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One of my aunties inspires me beause of how easily she shows her emotions, and she isn't ever afraid to cry. My mum, for her work ethic - she might not show her emotions in public very much, but she's a total power woman. My grandma, who watched four of her children die before her, she's a powerhouse.
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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
