Joan Didion Quotes
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
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Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
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You always want to win.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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My hair gets very light in the summer, but the problem with using all these products and going into the pool a lot is that my hair gets very yellow. I love purple shampoo!
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
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A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
