Joan Didion Quotes
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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History's a resource.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.
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You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.
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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
