Virginia Woolf Quotes
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
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Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
