Leonard Woolf Quotes
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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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It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
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Without Justice, no realm may prosper.
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
