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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You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?