Quote by Joan Didion
I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at,

I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

Other quotes by Joan Didion

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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movies
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

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Property
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

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Self-Respect
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You live in this shadow that youre going to burn in Hell until youre saved. And I still worry about it a little. I dont believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell. – Beth Ditto

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I live my life through fear. If Im afraid of it Ill do it just so Im not afraid of it anymore. – Jeremy Renner

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Fear

I play with a fear of letting people down. Thats what motivates me. – Jonny Wilkinson

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez

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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors – theyre the cool seniors. – Owen Wilson

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