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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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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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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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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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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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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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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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
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Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.
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I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.
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The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
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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.
