Christina Stead Quotes
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
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People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
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I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.
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Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
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I had a very rainbow-colored childhood.
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Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.
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Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.
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I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.
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And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
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Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
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One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
