Virginia Woolf Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.
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Shout out to my haters sorry you couldn't phase me.
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I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
