Virginia Woolf Quotes
Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The world needs some help.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.
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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
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People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.
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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
