Christina Stead Quotes
Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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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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Writers are so important.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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I got a granite chin.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
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I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.
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We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
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Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
