#ge

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ↗

— Rebecca West

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ↗

— Rebecca West

#cannot #complicated #forgets #learn #man

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. ↗

— Rebecca West

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I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30. ↗

— Shane West

#best #both #die #going #i

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

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Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres. ↗

— Timothy West

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There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else. ↗

— Timothy West

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There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way. ↗

— Timothy West

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You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing. ↗

— Timothy West

#down #frightening #get #hunt #out

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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