Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
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When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
