Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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'Was your mother furious?''She’ll get over it,' Stanton said. 'Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there’s still hope.'
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
