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

Other quotes by Joan Didion

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion

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Water
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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

Category:
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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Other Quotes from
movies
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I dont think the competitions so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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movies

I do love the films Ive done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and were trying to make people laugh and Im very proud of that. – Adam Sandler

Category:
movies

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. – Christopher Walken

Category:
movies

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises. – Catherine Deneuve

Category:
movies

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A true man hates no one. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. – James Broughton

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