Virginia Woolf Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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Midi is my hobby.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.
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Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.
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What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
