Christina Stead Quotes
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic 'Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to 'just cheer up') have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.
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One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
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Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.
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You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
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This type of paradox is quite characteristic of Zen. It is an attempt to 'break the mind of logic'.
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Hours of research can cut months of field work.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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She is never more herself than when she destroys herself.
