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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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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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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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
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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 mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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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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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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'People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.'
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Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
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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.
