Virginia Woolf Quotes
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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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. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I know what poverty is.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.
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I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
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Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
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I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
