Christina Stead Quotes
She would never again try to knit even one stitch in the long chain of their married life. She hated all that was to come.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.
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She would never again try to knit even one stitch in the long chain of their married life. She hated all that was to come.
