Virginia Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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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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If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
