Joan Didion Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.
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No one conquers who doesn't fight.
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My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
