Joan Didion Quotes
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
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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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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
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If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
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I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
