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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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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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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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.
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Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.
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I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.
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My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to have on the economy's productive capacity, on productivity growth, and to the maximum extent possible, choose policies that would improve that long-run growth and productivity outlook.
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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.
