Joan Didion Quotes
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
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I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
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Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
