Christina Stead Quotes
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.
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I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
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When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
