Leonard Woolf Quotes
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
Victoria Clark
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
Charles Dickens
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An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
Ammon Hennacy
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie de Wolfe
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Wangari Maathai
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf
