Joan Didion Quotes
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov -
I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
Paige VanZant -
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
Viet D. Dinh -
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
Harmony Korine -
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler -
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
Patrick Stewart
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes -
How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
Barry Schwartz -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Harold Hamm -
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
Hannibal Buress -
I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
Taye Diggs -
I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
M. C. Gainey -
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
Warren Rudman -
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
Malala Yousafzai -
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Ma Ying-jeou -
Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are.
David Gemmell -
I can't die but once.
Harriet Tubman -
A faultless person is one who withdraws from affairs. This must be done with strength.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly looking for great content and good stuff. They don't care where it comes from, they'll latch onto it.
Mike Vogel -
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
Joan Didion