Virginia Woolf Quotes
No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
