Charles Williams Quotes
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Quotes to Explore
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.
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I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
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I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
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Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.
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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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The gods help them that help themselves.
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
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Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
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You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
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We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
