Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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I love to play with Tony and Bill anytime, anywhere.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
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I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
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You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.
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I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
