Virginia Woolf Quotes
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
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If he's convicted, ... once all the appeals have been exhausted, the rules do allow for him to be executed within 30 days of that.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
