Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
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All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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We are positioning the company to create a better shared future for all of our stakeholders by delivering on our vision and growing sustainably.
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
