Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
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A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
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Kathleen Blackshear just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it was a discussion group where everyone had a say, and it was a tremendous learning experience.
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
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When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
