Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.
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So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
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Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
