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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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
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Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
