Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?
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Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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An 'exchange' would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options - just like federal employees and Congress do right now - and allow their employer to help pay for it.
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Rise to the occassion which is life!
