Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
