#about

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artist #beyond #excessively #him #literature

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#curtain #draw #essay #good #must

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#advantages #brothers #cambridge #daughter #educated

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ↗

— Steven Wright

#cholesterol #drive #fast #i #too

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#ask #doing #ever #funny #music

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#communism #idea #just #pie #sky

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#energy #gives #good #good writing #whatever

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#ang #ang lee #audiences #i #knows

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#acting #actor #bad #became #far