Christina Stead Quotes
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I really love storytelling.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
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We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
