Rebecca West Quotes

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

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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I have a trend of my own.

Andrei Platonov

My OwnOwnTrend

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

Angus Deaton

MoneyGovernmentPeopleThinkYou

Watching someone getting really angry can be very funny - if it doesn't affect you, you can laugh at it, and the sillier the thing he's angry about, the funnier it is.

Michael Che

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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Steve Coogan

YouthComedyYouCareerStudentOut

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

Robert Forster

GoodMomentExcellenceCreativeMind

My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.

Ron White

GoodNowMoreStorytellingBeen

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

Michio Kaku

WorkTodayGreatNowNothingSure

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

Louis Theroux

TrustStrugglePeopleWinWorld

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

Lorde

LearningCreativePeopleMeThinking

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

Chris Frantz

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As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

Christopher Walken

YouPersonPlayActorBecomeMade

I never had trouble saying what I have to say.

Brigitte Bardot

SayingTroubleSayNeverHad

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