Christina Stead Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.
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Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own
