Christina Stead Quotes

It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes

Christina Stead

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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.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• 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.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Love
  • Anger
  • Bitterness

• 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.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• I was brought up as a normal kid.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Up
  • Kid
  • Normal

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • City
  • Retire

• As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Body

• 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.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• I have so many messy moments.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Moments

• It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Singing
  • Rose

• 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.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Up
  • Earth
  • City

• I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

  

  Leverett Saltonstall
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Age

• People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

  

  Linda Tripp
  • People
  • Expectation

• Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Congratulations

• By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Peace

• In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Work
  • Art
  • Past

• I never set out to work on the concept of androgyny. For me, it was more about trying to find a wardrobe that would fundamentally appeal to both men and women: Trying to find the right shirt, the right jeans, the right trouser - but on different landscapes.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes

  

  Christina Stead
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