Virginia Woolf Quotes
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
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This next song is called 'Wolf Moon' crowd starts to cheer. Wait with cheering until you hear what the song's about. It's about a guy who turns into a werewolf when he engages in oral sex with a menstruating woman crowd cheers even louder, and Steele spreads out his arms. You wanna call me a pussy? You are what you eat.
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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
