Virginia Woolf Quotes
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
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I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
