"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
-Joan Didion
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.“
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"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
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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."
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
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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."
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"Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that."
-Joan Didion
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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