Virginia Woolf Quotes
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Everyone wants to lead when things are going well.
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
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London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.
