Joan Didion Quotes
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
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Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
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My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.
