Virginia Woolf Quotes

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Virginia Woolf

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• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

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• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

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• I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

  

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• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

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• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

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• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

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• I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

  

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• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

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• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

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• I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

  

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• It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.

  

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• I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

  

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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

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• Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.

  

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• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  

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• I've had problems with my eyes, and my legs hurt if I walk a great deal. That's due to very bad circulation. It's called claudication, and it's painful. So I have to stop if I'm walking, and pretending I'm looking in the window, so that I can rest them a little bit and then start off again.

  

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• I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.

  

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• I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

  

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• My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

  

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• A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Said