Virginia Woolf Quotes
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
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I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
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Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
