Joan Didion Quotes
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
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The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.
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In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...
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Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
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Unica bellipraemia civilis, victis donare salutem,perdidimus.
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It takes me a while to get my appetite going when I wake up early.
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I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.
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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
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I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don't like for them to be tinkered with. I think that's a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.
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Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.
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If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.
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I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.
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I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
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I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
