Diaries Quotes - Page 9

• A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  A. C. Benson

  Book, Giving, Needs

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• The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Lines, Opening

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• The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

  Anais Nin

  Emotional, Taught, Moments

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• I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

  May Sarton

  Beautiful, Half, Alive

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• The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

  Sheila Bender

  Distance, Writing, Journey

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• My diary seems to keep me whole.

  Anais Nin

  Journal, Whole, Seems

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• Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

  Hillary Clinton

  Writing, Heaven, Ifs

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• Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Vitality, Essentials

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• Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Years, Psychology, Brain

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• I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. "Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla" - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!

  Christopher Isherwood

  Years, Ideas, People

  "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.

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• A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

  Art Spiegelman

  Suicide, Letters, Notes

  "Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. October 8, 2008.

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• 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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• Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.
  Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, Men, Thinking

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• If people recognize me from The Vampire Diaries, they just give me that look that's like, "I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I'm not sure," because it was such a short-lived run.

  Cassidy Freeman

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Cassidy Freeman Talks LONGMIRE, SMALLVILLE, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and Her Band, THE REAL D’COY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2012.

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• I started my blog as an online diary. I moved to New York for a job, and I kind of wanted to keep my pictures all in one place. Also, I just love style blogs and wanted to join in on the fun!

  Ashley Madekwe

  Jobs, New York, Fun

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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