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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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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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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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
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As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.
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Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.
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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.
