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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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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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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At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
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I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.
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I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
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As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.
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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
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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.
