Virginia Woolf Quotes
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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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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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
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I'm perfectly healthy.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
