Christina Stead Quotes

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Christina Stead

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Game
  • Football
  • Youth

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Team
  • Alone

• You need to train your brain to be positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Brain
  • Positive
  • Train

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Story

• Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Doubt
  • Gold
  • Holiday

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Pride
  • Story

• Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • House

• I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Suffering
  • Learn
  • Overcome

• 'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • History
  • Show
  • SNL

• If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Television

• We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Person
  • Fans
  • Wonderful

• You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Stupid

• They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Up
  • Work
  • Years

• We left him there. Louie. We left him.” I watched my father lean into his own arms and sob. There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal. My heart was breaking. All this time, I’d wanted my father to tell me something about the war and now I couldn’t stand to see the rawness of his pain, how new it was after so many years, how that pain was alive and thriving just beneath the surface.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • War
  • Pain
  • Animal

• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Animal
  • Wandering
  • Unimportant