Christina Stead Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
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Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
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Evolution is more about reproduction of the fittest than survival of the fittest; every creature on earth is the product of a series of historical battles between parasites and hosts, between genes and other genes, between members of the same species, between members of one gender in competitions for members of the other gender.
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One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
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My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
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Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
