Virginia Woolf Quotes
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I could never dream of being cool.
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This body is the seat of all good and bad.
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I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.
