Christina Stead Quotes
When she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.
Christina Stead
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
Lake Bell
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
Madchen Amick
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Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
Wendy Kopp
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
La'Porsha Renae
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We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
Sam Graves
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He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours - the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
Andrew Tobias
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
Edward St Aubyn
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Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
Anne Graham Lotz
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I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
Bill Pullman
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If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
Bruce Cockburn
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan
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I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.
Quentin Tarantino
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If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.
Keith Olbermann
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.
Emile Zola
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When she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.
Christina Stead
