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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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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Community banks are a crucial part of our economy and the fabric of our society.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
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Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
