Joan Didion Quotes

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeYouDownFlowFirstHard

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Jessica Walter

DoingTryingSaidForgetLiving

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

Matthew Lillard

BestMeThinkBadMoviesActor

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

Merlin Olsen

MeBasketballBackPoolWallCoach

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Aly Khan

LifeHistoryCivilizationIslamWay

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Sri Aurobindo

ReligionOthersCallBecauseHindu

Every actor has a different language. Every actor has their strengths and their challenges, and I try to help them and support them and help them through their challenges as best I can.

Lonny Price

BestSupportChallengesLanguageTry

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.

Jonathan Turley

PowerPeopleLibertyUnderstandSeem

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

Arancha Gonzalez

PositiveGoodForwardMatterChanges

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

Anthony Bourdain

CookingPeopleDoingYouNeverPure

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Alice Dreger

WillMeanLiarsMayUsExist

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

William Julius Wilson

GovernmentSupportHellTalkingSaid

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

SZA

MusicDayMeShortAttentionYou

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