Virginia Woolf Quotes
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
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If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
