Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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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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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
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I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are Twenty men crossing a bridge Into a village.
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I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
