Virginia Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
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I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.
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You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
