Virginia Woolf Quotes
I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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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 reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
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In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.
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I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.
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I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.
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There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
