"Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”
“True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.54, Penguin
“I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.”

Source : "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism".
“I play David Hasselhoff's secretary and she gets around a bit - it's quite a role. I end up in bed with Adam Sandler, It's so surreal it's hysterical . . I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.”
“Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.”
“I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.”
“I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.”
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

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