Virginia Woolf Quotes
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
Virginia Woolf
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond
I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
J. K. Simmons
We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
Imelda Staunton
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.
Luise Rainer
Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.
Brooke Burke
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
Virginia Woolf
