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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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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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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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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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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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.
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The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.
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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
