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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More specific material relating to the bourgeois state will be found in subsequent volumes. This approach is of a piece with Marx’s. One must remember that most of the states that Marx had occasion to discuss were not capitalist states—as yet—even in Europe, let alone throughout the rest of the world. From the standpoint of theory this is a good thing, since no phenomenon can be thoroughly understood if only one specimen or type is available for examination. The literature of Marxism and marxology is unfortunately full of statements about Marx’s views which actually apply only to capitalism and the bourgeois era, and which require at least considerable qualification as soon as the focus is widened to include most of the world and world history. It is a form of ethnocentrism.
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Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
