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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People always grow and mature.
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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
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He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
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Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
