Diaries Quotes - Page 10

• I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

  Judi Dench

  Mind, Done, Fixing Things

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• I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.

  Heath Ledger

  Voice, Laughing, Important

  "World Exclusive: The Joker Speaks". Interview with Olly Richards, www.empireonline.com. November 28, 2007.

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• I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.

  Robert Pattinson

  Writing, Years, Giving

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• I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

  Miley Cyrus

  Want, Causes, Kind

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• You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

  Vanilla Ice

  Change, Stars, Names

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• So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Determination, Giving Up

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Wall, Sleep, Paris

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• Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

  John Ashcroft

  Brother, Communication, Hands

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• I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Humorous, Adventure

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, People, Four

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

  Paula Cole

  Albums

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• The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Land

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

  Golda Meir

  Schedules, Half, Politics

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Notebook, Hate

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• In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.

  James Lecesne

  Character, Gay, Boys

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• Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.

  Julie Plec

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Brother

  "Vampire Diaries: Nina Dobrev Won't Return for Season 7" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2015.

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• I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Nice, Years, Feelings

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

  Sarah Manguso

  Defense, Wake Up, Waking

  "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, www.theatlantic.com. March 3, 2015.

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• I don't want to be singing my diary.

  Norah Jones

  Singing, Want

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• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.

  Oren Peli

  Crazy, People, Degrees

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• I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Different, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: Ron Rash" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

  Tim Lucas

  Men, Special, Hell

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• Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Night, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Ugly

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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