Joan Didion Quotes

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

John Cheever

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I'm no real expert on China.

Max Baucus

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As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.

John Rowland

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I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

Amy Heckerling

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A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Stanislav Grof

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I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.'

Soledad O'Brien

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I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

River Phoenix

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A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

Miriam Toews

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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall', a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

Mitt Romney

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I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

Jordan Peele

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The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

Colin Angle

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