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Joan Didion

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GARRY TRUDEAU I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constra...
LILY JAMES There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this ...
ROZ CHAST If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is ...
KERRY GREENWOOD This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny lit...
SAM RICHARDS I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in...
ROB LOWE I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny ...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was...
FKA TWIGS The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this go...
BOB BEAUPREZ Solar is but a tiny, tiny, tiny part of their business. They make 99.9 percent of their money in the...
LYLE BRINKER I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
CAROL VORDERMAN Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new lig...
DAN BROWN I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ev...
HENRY ROLLINS In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a...
VICTORIA BECKHAM I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.
J.P. DELANEY I then go miserably enough to the typewriter and I edit with tiny little pen scribbles until you can...
CAMPBELL GEESLIN I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly...
HAYLEY ATWELL Harry has created this whole world out of little, tiny things we don't think about,
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MARY ROACH I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
NANCY GRACE At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t...
GAIL CARRIGER It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact,...
EVELYN GLENNIE I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'...
CHANEL IMAN When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
J.D. SALINGER Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in ...
STEVE CARELL A speck of ire can
blaze a fire; the fate of war can
be sealed with a dart,
a butterf...
SOMALI K CHAKRABARTI I'm not a short person; I'm 5'10 and I was wearing heels, and I felt like a tiny little ...
ERINN HAYES I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper cl...
NICK MCDONELL I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.
TY SIMPKINS I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pic...
MCG Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did th...
WILLIAM SHATNER There is also a tiny fraction of Australians who believe in white supremacy.
AMEER ALI In the blank wall of the world’s indifference there had appeared a tiny snakelike fissure
VASILY GROSSMAN Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT When you come out of the storms and sub-zero temperatures into a tiny yurt, there's a sense that...
TIM COPE If there is a tiny glimmer of hope at every sunrise then success will follow when the sun rises.
NIXON JUSTINIANI I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'...
JENNIFER KONNER South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is app...
CHRISTINA ENGELA People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secon...
PINK In the stream, (gold) is six times heavier than anything else in there. Even those tiny tiny specks ...
BENJAMIN MILLER I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It&#...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I'm totally normal. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends at my house. I still ...
KEKE PALMER My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in ...
BRIAN GRAZER When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so ...
COLIN MOCHRIE Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them...
RENE DENFELD It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happen...
LIAM NEESON I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
CARROLL SHELBY I do believe in Providence. There have been far too many tiny perfect coincidences in my life. At so...
CASPAR VEGA I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best...
YUICHIRO MIURA I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.
NICK HORNBY How was I to know this tiny spark would spread like wildfire.
N.R.HART There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the au...
INGRID JENSEN To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say,...
BILLY COLLINS I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny com...
DR. CARL SAGAN I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.
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ALEXANDER CHEE I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... The...
TINY TIM The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthu...
TINY TIM America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
TINY TIM If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.
TINY TIM I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I ...
TINY TIM If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there'...
TINY TIM I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority ...
TINY TIM As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'.....
TINY TIM As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just s...
TINY TIM I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and ...
TINY TIM The only thing I think of is the next hit record.
TINY TIM I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.
TINY TIM I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the c...
TINY TIM Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers li...
TINY TIM It's stupid. I'd take a lie detector test if they want to prove what we said is true. I'd take any n...
TINY ANDERSON Night after night in the '50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and ...
TINY TIM I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time.
TINY TIM I told him he couldn't have it all. So he pulled out this razor thing and cut off part of the mouse....
TINY ANDERSON I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.
TINY TIM It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and ha...
TINY TIM When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not ...
TINY TIM In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
TINY TIM There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virgin...
LILY KOPPEL I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled ...
PENN JILLETTE My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'
LELAND ORSER It's tiny [his butt], what can I do?
RICKY MARTIN She nodded, but Tiny was still holding her arm, and he asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to ...
LYNSAY SANDS The tiny madman in his padded cell.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting ti...
JERRY SALTZ In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A ...
MEGHAN DAUM I think mascara is a must. If I'm going to wear makeup somewhere, and I'm doing it, it's...
KENDALL JENNER I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may...
ANDREA HIRATA I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.
KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever ...
BRIAN GREENE I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.
AMY LEE To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard a...
DONNA TARTT Only a handful, a tiny handful, of retirees have objected to this settlement.
EUGENE DRIKER Her tiny butt
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JOAN RIVERS Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO