Christina Stead Quotes
When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I studied drama.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
