Everybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not we need to renew ourselves in territories that are fresh and wild. We need to come home through the body of alien lands.


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A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
JOAN DIDION
I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wi...
JOAN COLLINS
For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
JOAN JETT
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I...
JOAN RIVERS
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
JOAN JETT
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and ...
JOAN RIVERS
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
JOAN RIVERS
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
JOAN DIDION
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
JOAN DIDION
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' Al...
JOAN DIDION
Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.
JOAN RIVERS
Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of...
JOAN LINGARD
One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a sm...
JOAN COLLINS
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
JOAN JETT
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life m...
JOAN MIRO
I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of ...
JOAN KIRNER
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION
I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'...
JOAN HICKSON
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost ha...
JOAN BAEZ
Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
JOAN MIRO
When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha...
JOAN ARMATRADING
When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ...
JOAN LARSEN
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT
Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES
You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER
I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó
Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION