Quote by Joan Didion
Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes wi

Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when youve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other peoples ability to do that. – Joan Didion

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Strength is one of those things youre supposed to have. You dont feel that you have it at the time youre going through it. – Joan Didion

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strength
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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Envy / Jealousy
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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Science Fiction
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I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that Im in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. Its so unnatural and uncomfortable. – Amanda Seyfried

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movies

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, whats happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option – not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others – of movies that are in the theater. – Reed Hastings

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movies

Everybodys a filmmaker today. – John Milius

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movies

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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movies

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