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.

Virginia Woolf

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• 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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Find
  • Face

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Goal
  • Enemy
  • U.S.

• From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Always
  • Dance
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• 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.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Black

• Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Give
  • Mother`s
  • Guidance

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

  

  Parker Posey
  • She
  • New
  • New York

• I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Interested

• I'm so honoured and excited to be working in the business at a time when it's truly progressing.

  

  Alisha Boe
  • Time
  • Business

• The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Fact

• Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

  

  Seth Godin
  • May
  • Media
  • Social

• 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.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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