Joan Didion Quotes

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildMeRoseStrongBlackClothes

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Steve Guttenberg

MoviesOverBraggingWellBillion

I want people to hear me and feel like they can be bold as well.

Stefflon Don

PeopleMeFeelBoldWantWell

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

Stella McCartney

StrengthTimeWomanAttractiveOwn

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Simone Weil

HeroOrderGiveMustOneself

Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.

Tony Evans

MePrisonStreetOutTakeWorking

One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine its added value - namely, the difference between the value of its outputs, that is, the goods and services it produces, and the costs of its inputs, such as the raw materials and energy it consumes.

Michael Spence

ValueEnergyBetterMeasureWay

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

HomeStairsUpHeSirCame

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

Dee Rees

TimeArtThinkPlaceAlwaysI Think

When I'm on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I'm a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it's about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids.

Christie Rampone

TiredMomEnjoyBackEverything

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

Chris O'Dowd

LivePeopleEnoughTelevisionIrish

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

Clare-Hope Ashitey

LivePeopleBridgeChanceThinkYou

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.

Clark Gregg

WorkGoodPeopleWritingYouPlace

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