Rebecca West Quotes

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

Topics

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People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Joanna Lumley

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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

Jessica Szohr

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I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

Jenny Lewis

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There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

Ann Jillian

LifeEarlyCancerBreast Cancer

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

Troye Sivan

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

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I have been very fortunate in that my career has taken me on a journey I could only have dreamed of.

Michael Owen

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I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

Michael Rapaport

MusicTimeNew YorkCitySongNew

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Michael Specter

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I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

Dolly Parton

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Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Diego Maradona

GodWorldRememberCountryNowHand

I didn't have any expectations with 'Traveller' - I don't think anybody did. That's how I prefer the process to be.

Chris Stapleton

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