Joan Didion Quotes

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

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• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Financial
  • Accountability

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Done
  • Serious

• My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Music
  • She
  • Kids

• The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Best
  • Right
  • Wants

• The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Down
  • Exploring

• The general market wants what I do.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Market
  • Wants
  • General

• Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • You
  • Feeling

• Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Inspiration

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Eighth

• Like anyone else, I go up and down. You wake up some days, and you're like, "Life is great." You wake up other days, and you're like, "This is so shitty. I just want to stay in bed." Right now, I feel confident that as long as I can keep the sound moving forward, this is something I'll be doing for at least another five years.

  

  Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López At the Drive-In
  • Long
  • Moving

• If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If it gets you excited and it's something you've never read before that's another plus. I think also with improv and that whole world of stand-up, that's a whole other organism of comedy that still needs a story, but it's more free-form. On the set, it is the combination of both those worlds coming together: a great script and an allowance to play with it.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Together

• Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  

  Joan Didion