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 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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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
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Whereas the good news had first been published for its own sake with no concern for success, now ineluctably success brought, as always, a desire for it. … They were not aware of what was happening, namely, that society was inverting Christianity instead of being subverted by it.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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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.
