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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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Cameron Diaz
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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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I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.
Catie Curtis
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These universal means of expression were discovered in modern painting by a logical and gradual progress toward ever more abstract form and color. Once the solution was discovered, there followed the exact representation of relations alone, that is to say, of the essential and fundamental element in any plastic emotion of the beautiful.
Piet Mondrian
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What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.
Kerry Washington
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From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.
Eugene V. Debs
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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?
Christina Stead