Virginia Woolf Quotes
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
Quotes to Explore
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.
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Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
