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Joan Didion Quotes

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

Swimming Pool Never Always Wanted

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

Andrew Garfield

Capitalism Always Serving Something

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Children Purpose Books Few Wrote

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Leadership Thinking Acting Way Most

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

Me Old Stage Little Crowd Stuff

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

Failure History Mistakes Intelligence

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Funny Age Child Think You Person

If you make a mistake at work, address it as soon as possible - don't hide it.

Work Mistake You Hide Possible Soon

Fashion is constantly evolving throughout the seasons and within various cultural changes, but the one thing that has stayed constant is how I always want my style to be an authentic, intrinsic part of myself.

Style Myself Fashion Seasons Want

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Dizzy Gillespie

Music Men You Serious More Get

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Chauncey Wright

Nature Caring Sometimes Why She Her

I'm not a housewife in any way.

Way Housewife Any

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Time Baseball Remember Week You

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