Virginia Woolf Quotes
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.
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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
