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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My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
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I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.
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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
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You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
