Virginia Woolf Quotes
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.Virginia Woolf
Quotes to Explore
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers -
This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
Flume -
I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
Gail Porter -
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Ramana Maharshi -
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
Garth Ennis -
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell -
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
Barney Ross -
I love people, and the hustle.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett -
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
Oliver North
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden -
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli -
It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
Nathan Fillion -
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
Malcolm Boyd -
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
Ian Frazier -
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
Warren Bennis
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tré Cool Green Day -
Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
Payal Kadakia -
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
Ben Dolnick -
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
John Green -
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
Virginia Woolf