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.Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
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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.
Mandy Moore -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams -
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg -
If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
Sam Farr -
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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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.
Carla Bley -
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips -
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.'
Gary Vaynerchuk -
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.
Bear Grylls -
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
Captain Beefheart
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.
Margaret Cho -
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
Charles R. Swindoll -
All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.
David Selby -
The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.
Maren Morris -
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.
Yasmin Ahmad -
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
Yasujirō Ozu -
Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
Sam Kean -
A dream can be what wakes you up in the morning and keeps you going every day, whether things are going great or not. You have that dream; you have that passion inside you that you keep pushing forward.
Kaetlyn Osmond -
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman -
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE