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When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.


Rebecca De Mornay

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REBECCA WEST Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. Yo...
REBECCA MCNUTT Credibility is a basic survival tool.
REBECCA SOLNIT As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering...
REBECCA SOLNIT Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about B...
REBECCA TRAISTER Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
REBECCA MACKINNON I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you wi...
REBECCA HALL People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr...
REBECCA WEST I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I ...
REBECCA STEAD Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Commun...
REBECCA MACKINNON I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.
REBECCA HALL I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.
REBECCA ROMIJN I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a s...
REBECCA PIDGEON Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge...
REBECCA MACKINNON I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ...
REBECCA WELLS It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abet...
REBECCA MACKINNON It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loa...
REBECCA TRAISTER Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that’s partially why she took a job at...
REBECCA MCNUTT 'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of ...
REBECCA TRAISTER Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a s...
REBECCA SOLNIT Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
REBECCA JOHNSON There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them ...
REBECCA WEST The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the exp...
REBECCA BEARD