Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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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.'
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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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'.
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People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.
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I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people might relate to in the way they relate to my non-branded content.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
