Virginia Woolf Quotes
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
Quotes to Explore
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.
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A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.
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As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
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There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.
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And even though rain was a miracle because this was the desert, that night it was not a miracle because the rain sounded like a thief trying to break into the house.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
