Christina Stead Quotes
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.
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All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.
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17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
