Virginia Woolf Quotes
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
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You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
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A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
