quotes about Diaries
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And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares -
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
-- Anais Nin -
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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
-- Andy Warhol -
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
-- Ann BeattieSource : Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage
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I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.
-- Anna NalickSource : Song: Breathe, Album: Wreck of the Day, 2005
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I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.
-- Anne Hathaway -
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I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
-- Anne Hathaway -
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
-- Anthea Turner -
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
-- Art SpiegelmanSource : "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 to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
-- Ben Casnocha -
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
-- Bram Stoker -
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
-- Brenda UelandSource : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.104, Simon and Schuster
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Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
-- Candace Bushnell -
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Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.
-- Clive James -
I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.
-- Cynthia KadohataSource : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
-- David Rockefeller -
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
-- David Sedaris -
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whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
-- David Sedaris -
(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,†Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.
-- Douglas Pagels -
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I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
-- Enoch Powell -
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
-- Erik Larson -
Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)
-- Erin Gruwell -
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
-- Eudora Welty -
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
-- Franz Kafka -
Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
-- George Meredith -
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
-- Geraldine Dawson -
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You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
-- Gwen StefaniSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
-- Heath LedgerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
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But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
-- Isaac Marion -
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I want to live my life, not record it.
-- Jackie KennedySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?
-- Janet Frame -
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
I think Diary of a Wimpy kidis sooooo good!!!!!!!
-- Jeff Kinney -
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First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.
-- Jeff Kinney -
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.
-- Jo Yoon-hee -
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
-- Joe Perry -
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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 -
The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.
-- Judy Collins -
Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.
-- Kathe KollwitzSource : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.111, Northwestern University Press
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Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.
-- Kenneth Williams -
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I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?
-- Kenneth Williams -
I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.
-- Kid Cudi -
The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.
-- L. J. Smith -
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
-- Lenny Kravitz -
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Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.
-- Liv Tyler -
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
-- Liza Minnelli -
In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.
-- Louis Tomlinson -
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I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
-- Louise Bourgeois -
I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
-- Luke Bryan -
The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
-- Lynda Barry -
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
-- Mae West -
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My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.
-- Marina Tsvetaeva -
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
-- Mark MothersbaughSource : "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots". Interview with Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.
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I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.
-- Matthew McConaughey -
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
-- Matthew McConaughey -
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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 -
There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
-- Nikki Grimes -
Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future
-- Nobuyoshi Araki -
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-- Pablo Picasso -
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I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
-- Paula Cole -
Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell.
-- Rachel Renée Russell -
Better late than never."-Dork Diaries
-- Rachel Renée Russell -
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
-- Rob ThomasSource : Rob Thomas (2013). “Rats Saw God”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.
-- Robert Burchfield -
I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
-- Sara Bareilles -
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 -
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
-- Steffi Graf -
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
-- Sue Townsend -
I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.
-- Susan Beth PfefferSource : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
-- Tallulah BankheadSource : Recalled on her death,12 Dec 1968.
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They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
-- Taylor MomsenSource : "Iron Maiden". Interview With Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. July 27, 2009.
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A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
-- William Soutar -
Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
-- Winona Ryder -
I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
-- Benjamin Clementine -
... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
-- Charlotte Moss -
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
-- Christina Baldwin -
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.
-- Debra Dean -
I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.
-- Doug Liman -
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 -