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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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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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own
