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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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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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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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
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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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The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
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Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
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If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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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.
