Virginia Woolf Quotes
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
Quotes to Explore
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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All my books are optimistic!
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
