Joan Didion Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
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I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
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Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.
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Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
