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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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
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Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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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.
