Virginia Woolf Quotes
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
Quotes to Explore
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
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If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.
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Even the oil companies don't need an incentive of $4 billion to go out and explore. As my grandpop would say, 'They’re doing just fine, thank you'.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
