Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
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Every conflict can be removed.
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I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
