Joan Didion Quotes
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.
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The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!
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I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
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I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.
