Virginia Woolf Quotes

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Virginia Woolf

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• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
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  • Movies
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• Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
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• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
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• A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Think

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Home
  • Enjoy

• I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Long
  • Traditions
  • Culinary

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
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• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
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• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
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• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music, and what not have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature, not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

  

  Arthur Slade
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Literature

• I live a normal life.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Live
  • Normal

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Reality
  • Literature
  • Disease