Virginia Woolf Quotes
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Quotes to Explore
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
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The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
