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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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.
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I can only give away the love that I have received.
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I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'
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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.
