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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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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I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.
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When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart
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It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.
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Our Saxon ancestors may have been a rude and hardy race, but they did not live in an age of materialism as we do.
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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
