Virginia Woolf Quotes
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
Quotes to Explore
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
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People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.
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I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
