Christina Stead Quotes
Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?
Christina Stead
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
Zubin Mehta
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
Sally Mann
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
Fernando Botero
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson
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One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
Jennifer Carpenter
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Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
Jacqueline Bisset
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I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.
Kether Donohue
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I admire Gaga. She's very talented and wise, that girl.
Neil Sedaka
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Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.
Peter Forsberg
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Shelley
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Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
Christina Baker Kline
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
Irving Fisher
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
Donald Miller
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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
Gary Bauer
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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?
Christina Stead
