Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation.
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Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
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“A girl is a soul at sunrise.”
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
