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Joan Didion

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ROB LOWE There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virgin...
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JOAN DIDION Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
JOHN GREEN I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ev...
HENRY ROLLINS I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER I know one thing - it's cheaper to make Joan of Arcadia.
DELLA REESE The one thing they always remember about me is that I'm the one with the seven kids.
ALEX CASTANO Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero of ...
JOAN DIDION The people are looking for somebody that will clean up the mess. The last thing they're looking for ...
JACK ROESER All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
IRWIN SHAW I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires....
HANYA YANAGIHARA Competition isn't a bad thing. Somebody can always do it better and that somebody is you.
LINDA RAWSON To whatever to do for the people they will always remember the last thing you said against them!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI The fish are always selling well. They are the only one of God’s creatures that never disappoints.
MARTIN DAVIES One thing i don't understand is sex is legal and selling things is legal but selling sex is illegal.
GEORGE CARLIN I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. T...
ERIC IDLE Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is...
JON J. MUTH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie...
PATRICK KAVANAGH There is one thing you must always remember about yourself; always be yourself, with courage and hum...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly sell...
SHAHID KHAN The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
TED SHACKELFORD We're one of the better teams in the conference. Last year we were at the bottom. We always remember...
CHANITA OLDS To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
ZHANG YIMOU But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship ...
HELEN FIELDING What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you a...
JENNIFER ECHOLS Always remember," he whispered to me, "that you are an uncommon soldier, whatever they say. And you ...
CHLOE NEILL Joan is rated one of the best in America,
FRANK MALONEY The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU If somebody is going to steal an automobile, the last thing they want is the VIN number all over the...
BILL ROSE never think that somebody laughs at you,atleast remember that you are giving happiness to someone
ASHISH TIWARI I know one thing. The coaching staff and management on our team will remember our last 10 games of t...
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AMY ALLEN One important thing to remember is that muscle cuts of meat have almost no risk,
ANN VENEMAN Having them tell you [writers] that is one thing, ... but it's not the same as having them tell me.
FRANK ROBINSON That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
L.M. MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.
L.M. MONTGOMERY One of our main motivations has to be that we want to finish strong. As I tell the players all the t...
SKIP PROSSER Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.
GORAN PERSSON The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smi...
ED SHEERAN One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
VINCE FLYNN A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and...
REGINA LEWIS Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
FANNIE HURST Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER You remember the first one though. I ponder to myself that this could be my last couple of starts or...
ROGER CLEMENS I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL If you are single there is always one thing you should take out with you on a Saturday night... your...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was...
GENE RODDENBERRY Of course people are worried that fuel will run out. I need my car and I remember the last blockade.
BOB ASKELL I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.
DAVID MAMET Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember
DAVID MAMET Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.
DAVID MAMET And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.
CATHERINE LACEY When one is lonely, one should remember that they have whatever company they desire. Always have.
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SHANNON L. ALDER The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thi...
STEPHENIE MEYER Tim was never only into one thing or setting out to do one specific genre. There is not really a spe...
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BRITT BONNEAU Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but ...
JOHN MAYER When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.
ALLISON ANDERS You can always look back that I bogeyed the last two holes, but I'll remember that I played better e...
D.A. WEIBRING You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one...
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JOSEPH NORTON One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
WALTER ISAACSON One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
OLASOT I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remem...
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-Engraved on the monument Cl...
LORRAINE HEATH I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
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JOAN DIDION What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is go...
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JOAN DIDION Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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JOAN DIDION Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There w...
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JOAN DIDION Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice...
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JOAN DIDION That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out
JOAN DIDION hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.
JOAN DIDION We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget
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JOAN DIDION I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tel...
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JOAN DIDION The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
JOAN DIDION We tell ourselves stories,
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JOAN DIDION [In her devastating new book,] The Year of Magical Thinking, ... cut loose any fixed idea I had ever...
JOAN DIDION This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.
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JOAN DIDION We tell ourselves stories in order to live,
JOAN DIDION Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it e...
JOAN DIDION There's hardly anything I can say about this except thank you,
JOAN DIDION To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, sing...
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JOAN DIDION I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the ma...
JOAN DIDION That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing.
JOAN DIDION I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
JOAN DIDION And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and ...
JOAN DIDION The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not sh...
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JOAN DIDION I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
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JOAN DIDION I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lightin...
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JOAN DIDION I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
JOAN DIDION Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing....
JOAN DIDION Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. ...
JOAN DIDION I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I d...
JOAN DIDION You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
JOAN DIDION The Year of Magical Thinking,
JOAN DIDION Call me the author.
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JOAN DIDION I never had to finish sentences because he would finish them for me, ... I never got why. What was g...
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JOAN DIDION Western Attitudes Toward Death.
JOAN DIDION Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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JOAN DIDION I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it
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JOAN DIDION They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words - words are for "typ...
JOAN DIDION Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach... I could make promises to myself and to other...
JOAN DIDION But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human il...
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JOAN DIDION Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price ...
JOAN DIDION Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tri...
JOAN DIDION I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody as...
JOAN DIDION It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figur...
JOAN DIDION I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of w...
JOAN DIDION Of course we would all like to "believe" in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public ...
JOAN DIDION It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happ...
JOAN DIDION Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolesce...
JOAN DIDION It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind o...
JOAN DIDION …quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean tha...
JOAN DIDION It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often ...
JOAN DIDION It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer ...
JOAN DIDION We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betr...
JOAN DIDION I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fil...
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JOAN DIDION ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean...
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JOAN DIDION I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
JOAN DIDION A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind,...
JOAN DIDION Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
JOAN DIDION Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
JOAN DIDION I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
JOAN DIDION I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things go...
JOAN DIDION I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things go...
JOAN DIDION Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
JOAN DIDION You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the s...
JOAN DIDION I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political....
JOAN DIDION A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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JOAN DIDION I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.
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JOAN DIDION This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingl...
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JOAN DIDION I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.
JOAN DIDION I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.
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JOAN RIVERS When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and ...
JOAN SMALLS I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
JOAN MIRO I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
JOAN RIVERS Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
JOAN RIVERS Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. I...
JOAN RIVERS I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
JOAN RIVERS I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
JOAN RIVERS I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
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JOAN RIVERS I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
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JOAN RIVERS Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
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JOAN RIVERS I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death inte...
JOAN BAEZ We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
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JOAN CUSACK I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
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JOAN BLADES Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
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JOAN COLLINS I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
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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...
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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