Christina Stead Quotes
It has never worked - it never will. I don’t know what you want to hang on to me for. You should have let me go at the beginning. Why did you beg me to marry you at Frederick that day? I would have got another man.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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I think that what kids watch now a days is different than what kids watch when I was young so I don't know. I think that it's up to the parents to decide. That's the truth. I'm not a parent. I have no idea, but I think some parents let a ten year old watch it and some parents wouldn't.
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It has never worked - it never will. I don’t know what you want to hang on to me for. You should have let me go at the beginning. Why did you beg me to marry you at Frederick that day? I would have got another man.
