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Joan Didion Quotes

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Water People Control Important True

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

Jody Williams

Grow Fence White Know Want Kid

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

Jenny Slate

Me Want Write Studio Movie

However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.

Matt Haig

Power Depression Sky Cloud You Say

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Music Fun Cool Think Musicians

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

Learn Creating Desire Boy Himself

Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

Deborah Tannen

Age Power Struggle Together Parents

School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.

Boy George

Great Day School Me Place Want

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Pawan Kalyan

Revolution You Fall Apple Make Ripe

There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.

Sergio Marchionne

Car Mind Organization American Doubt

2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

Thomas Menino

Great Red World Political Year

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

Mustard

Me Hands Place Want Right Just One

I've always felt I struck out with Doris Day. Her son, Terry Melcher, was a producer I worked for at Columbia, and one day, he asked me to go to her house to play piano on a song she was doing. So I get there, and she has about 30 dogs running around the place - turns out she's a dog rescuer.

Leon Russell

Dog Son Day Me Song Doing