Virginia Woolf Quotes
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.
Quotes to Explore
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Midi is my hobby.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead
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Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.
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I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.
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There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.
