Joan Didion Quotes
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Quotes to Explore
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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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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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
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I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.
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My dad was a great dad.
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Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
