Cecil Beaton Quotes
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
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I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
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We work and that is godlike.
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They did everything they could to make her renounce her position.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.
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Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
