Virginia Woolf Quotes
She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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My health is fine.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Actors, after all, dream.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don't know about him is that, before 'Lord of the Rings,' he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.
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I'm always shocked by what people react to.
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She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.
