Virginia Woolf Quotes
The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.
Quotes to Explore
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. But I didn't realise how much it would affect me mentally. All that pressure. I was only 19; I still didn't know everything about taekwondo, I wasn't experienced. I just did amazing on that day and won.
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Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
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The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.
