Christina Stead Quotes
She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn’t they all come out of it?
Christina Stead
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
Camille Claudel
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Rachel Brosnahan
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Hafez
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Vincent Cassel
I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
Carine Roitfeld
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
Alice Paul
Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
Laura Wade
I think, for a while, there was a kind of debate about whether you could bring back Negro and reclaim it, and then it was black versus African American; now I have noticed in conversation that black people will use all three terms depending on context. I don't advocate one term.
Margo Jefferson
Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.
Vanessa Kirby
My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.
Charles Spurgeon
She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn’t they all come out of it?
Christina Stead
