Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
Patrick deWitt
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel Alexander
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham Maslow
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Jacques Chirac
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On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
James Lee Burke
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The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
Corey Stoll
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Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
