Christina Stead Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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I have so many messy moments.
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It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.
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I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
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Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.
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I’ve had reports of this one being in the city, but no close-up pictures till now. He’s some kind of pretty. I could just take a bite out of that firm—
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
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It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes
