Virginia Woolf Quotes
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?
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I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
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Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.
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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
