Charles Williams Quotes
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Education is so important.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
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Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
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I like getting a tan, so if I'm lying on the beach, I want to get as much skin out as possible.
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Don't invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don't have room for that secret. I've got enough real secrets I have to keep: dark, life-destroying secrets.
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It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
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I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
