Joan Didion Quotes

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SomeoneProblemNeverSheOpenSeem

There is no question that the benefits of a permanent, robust trading partnership between the U.S. and the E.U. are a rare example of a win-win for both parties.

Joe Kaeser

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Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.

Robert Rinder

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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Robert Kennedy

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With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

Matt Groening

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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Shirley Hufstedler

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Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Michael Nesmith

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The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and June.

Julia Mancuso

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Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it. From leafy greens to purple to herbs, fresh cut herbs mixed into it for flavors. I vary what I toss into it. Sometimes it might be lentils and chopped tomatoes, other days it could be garbanzo beans, some days I might have just a salad and have some lentil soup on the side.

Christie Brinkley

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I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

Arnon Goldfinger

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There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.

Alia Shawkat

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I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

William Petty

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