#had

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#cold #days #hot #light #march

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#favor #had #pocket #prejudice #runs

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

#always #around #been #before #big

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. ↗

— Joan Didion

#generally #hadn #i #i am #out

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#anything #been #before #comes #enjoyment

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#fans #god #had #haven #i

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#ended #hadn #house #i #piano

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#being #brother #children #family #had