Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
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I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
