Christina Stead Quotes
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot - I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot - 'All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'
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Ce n'est jamais qu'à cause d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives.1
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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
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My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
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It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
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When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!
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No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
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The work is the work. The work is not me.
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
