Christina Stead Quotes

Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.

Christina Stead

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• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

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• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

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• At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.

  

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• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

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• Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

  

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• And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

  

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• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

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• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  

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• I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

  

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• Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

  

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• A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

  

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• In our travels, we have come across many equations - math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

  

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• One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

  

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• I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

  

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• Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.

  

  Christina Stead
  • World
  • Children
  • Tales