Christina Stead Quotes
Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
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The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Phish in San Diego...I saw them play an unbelievable fucking show, which, I can honestly say, changed my life. I was physically torn apart and spiritually moved by the experience.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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I don't have those superstitious ticks that people have to have something for the road. I like to have good food on the bus, my own pillow, and onesies. Onesies are a must.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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Music kept me sane between acting jobs.
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Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
