A Quote by Christina Stead

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Christina Stead

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Everyone Life Likes Obscene Real Real Life

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Christina Stead
Australian - Novelist
July 17, 1902 - March 31, 1983

Everyone likes to laugh. Everyone likes to dance along to some music.

Chris Gethard

Everyone likes to be the heel. Everyone wants to be the bad guy. I mean, I love being the bad guy, but the crowd doesn't want me to be a bad guy. In real life, I'm too much of a good guy to be a bad guy.

Bobby Lashley

Not everyone likes seeing a strong, buff guy, but everyone likes women. We compete just as hard as men do, and we can do the acting just as well.

Eve Torres

Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

Chris Cleave

Everyone likes different things. Not everyone's the same. Not everyone runs their mouth. Not everyone can fight.

Robbie Lawler

As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...

Robert Rankin

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Bum Phillips

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Matthew Arnold

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Jason Isaacs

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima

Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!

William H. Macy

Everyone thinks that Jean-Luc is an intellectual. But he's very a sportive person too. He likes action. He likes people to be physical in their roles. They had to move a lot.

Anna Karina

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

Harold Pinter

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.