Christina Stead Quotes
It's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
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They sang of love, and not of fame;Forgot was Britain's glory;Each heart recalled a different name,But all sang Annie Lawrie.
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My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.
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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.
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It's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.
