"For the film maker must come by his……" — Virginia Woolf
"For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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More Convention Quotes
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
— Carol Bellamy
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
— David Brinkley
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts…
— Emanuel Celler
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior…
— Jim Bush
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There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a…
— George Santayana
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How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump…
— Bill Bradley
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I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another…
— David Ogilvy
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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that…
— H. L. Mencken
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