Christina Stead Quotes
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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I really don't take any notice of girls in the audience. I really don't. I just play. I've got a shit view anyway. A couple of cymbals. I can't see jack.
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My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
