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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We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.
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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.
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You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the same vibe as the 'Buddy Holly' video in that you just knew it was going to work.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
