Christina Stead Quotes
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.
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If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
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My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.
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President Skroob: What the hell, it works on Star Trek!
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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
