Virginia Woolf Quotes
I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
Quotes to Explore
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
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I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
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We will only grow as big as we dream that's why we must dream big.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
