Leonard Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.
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If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
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Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.
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You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
