Virginia Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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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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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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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 hate watching myself on screen! I absolutely hate it, it's so hard to watch. I can see myself in magazines, but watching on TV or movies is like, 'Ugh.'
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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.
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On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
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A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.
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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
