Virginia Woolf Quotes
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
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The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.
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I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
