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.Joan Didion
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Gail Porter -
NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
Victor Ponta -
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.
Oscar Isaac -
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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
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.
C. Everett Koop -
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
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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.
Sam Smith -
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
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.
Laura Dern -
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.
Karan Mahajan -
My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
Xavier Samuel
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
Sadhu Vaswani -
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.
Jack Bruce Cream -
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood -
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.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.
Matt Groening -
Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
Maria Semple -
Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.
Allen Steele -
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Mikhail Kalashnikov -
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.
Joan Didion