Joan Didion Quotes

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LovePowerRomanticMoneyNew York

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

Jimmy Johnson

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My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.

John Dickerson

StarsFatherMotherTelevisionNews

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

Steve Toltz

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I celebrated great successes alongside exceptional players like Philipp Lahm, Thomas Mueller, Manuel Neuer, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Miroslav Klose, Luca Toni, and Franck Ribery.

Toni Kroos

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There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Lou Jiwei

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I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

Dennis Franz

GoodThinkSmellAlwaysRoomLiked

I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.

David Shields

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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Condoleezza Rice

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I like something you can hum along to.

Bradley Walsh

YouSomethingAlongLikeHum

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

Bradley Wiggins

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You want to win everything you are in.

Brian O'Driscoll

WinYouWantEverything

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