Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Women drive box office.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.
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Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
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I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.
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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
