Joan Didion Quotes

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeLookingBelieveOutI Was Raised

I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.

Adnan Sami

LiveDaySchoolBreakfastCricket

When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

YouGetComeExcitingAudition

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Jens Lekman

PastThinkYouDoneWhyWrite

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

Robert Mapplethorpe

LoveTimeLookingSomeoneMeanOut

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Robert Heller

SuccessManagementSkillFirstMyth

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Michael Badnarik

GovernmentSurviveConstitutionPlace

The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people's expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of 'coming of age,' many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.

John Zimmer

CarAgeFreedomWaitingPeopleNow

When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

John Schnatter

ThinkYouHouseNiceCompanyOut

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Mickey Drexler

ChangeDayPeopleLongWantMeet

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

Luis Videgaray Caso

ThingsWhereNAFTALotsUpdated

My energy is undoubtedly my two sons Yatra and Linga, and they are my all-time inspirations.

Dhanush

EnergyTwoSonsAll-TimeUndoubtedly

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Donald McKay

WordsStepMeWritingStartProcess

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