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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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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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'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.
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I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Growing up in Buffalo, you always hated the Dolphins, but I just remember my one friend always liked the opposite team, and he liked the Dolphins, so I remember always going at it with him.
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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.
