Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I'm a real optimist.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
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If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
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Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
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My main interest is in trying to find radically different kinds of neural nets.
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It is no use trying to sum people up.
