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!
Abbey Clancy -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
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.
Dana Perino -
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
Felicity Huffman -
I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
Babe Paley -
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.
Maggie Rowe
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale -
We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
Baba Kalyani -
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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
O. Winston Link -
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.
Abbie Hoffman -
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!
Randall Jarrell
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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').
Anthony Sampson -
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.
Angie Martinez -
The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
Joanna Southcott -
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.
Mark Shand -
Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
M. J. Rose
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.
Melanie Rawn -
I think pop culture has always influenced society.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
She is never more herself than when she destroys herself.
Christina Stead