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.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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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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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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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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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.
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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
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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.
