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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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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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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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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Physicians should be genotyped.
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My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
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If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.
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The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
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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.
