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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, mind

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.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, quality, good, good luck

It took me years of explorations for discovering what I call my method of digging, which allows me to tell fragmentary past when I needed it.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, past

Lost time: I think that it will influence me, but in the same time it will make me angry for each of my sentences.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about time, influence

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about spring

I grew up as a fairly puritanical, Protestant, football-playing boy in Virginia. I don't know that I've changed very much.

Quote by Warren Beatty about football

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Quote by Geena Davis about country, woman, world

Archers are pretty focused.

Quote by Geena Davis about concentration

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Quote by Geena Davis about being, woman

I competed in the high jump in high school, but I wasn't very good. My technique was to stand around looking intimidating because I was so tall.

Quote by Geena Davis about school, good, good luck

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

Quote by Geena Davis about parents, action, school, use

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back! '

Quote by Geena Davis about bad, things

I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

Quote by Geena Davis about haven

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Quote by Geena Davis about americans, woman

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

Quote by Geena Davis about character, action

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

Quote by Geena Davis

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Quote by Geena Davis about risk, nothing

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

Quote by Geena Davis about dream, rightness

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

Quote by Geena Davis

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

Quote by Geena Davis about police, numbers