Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.
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I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.
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The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
