Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Real
  • Say
  • Stand

• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Doing
  • Need

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Life
  • Poverty

• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Career
  • College
  • Model

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Acting

• Without sounding too cliche, my part on 'Getting On' is the best role I've ever had. It is so rich, it is so well rounded, and I am happy to be right here. I feel like I lucked out and got one of the richest characters on TV because he is so complex.

  

  Mel Rodriguez
  • Happy

• Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Writing

• What information could be so embarrassing that a man with decades of experience in handling classified documents would risk being caught pilfering our nation's most sensitive secrets? Did these documents detail simple negligence, or did they contain something more sinister?

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Experience
  • Simple
  • Risk

• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  

  Bernadine Dohrn
  • People
  • Work

• Family is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't mean you can't do other stuff in your life. In fact, having a family makes whatever other thing you have that much richer. If it was just me, I'd be home alone and think, 'Well, something good happened at work,' but it's nicer to share it with people you love.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

  

  Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Argument