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 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 don't know if you can articulate an instinct.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
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I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.
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When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.
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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.
