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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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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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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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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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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God…is the center of all selves.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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The dream is to have it all. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time - I want to get it all in.
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Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
