Virginia Woolf Quotes
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.
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I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.
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The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
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I believe in focusing on details.
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A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.