Joan Didion Quotes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
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I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
