C. S. Lewis Quotes
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
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I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.
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You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
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I never walk into a room and say, 'Hi! I am Vanessa Williams' daughter.' It helps me to become more authentic.
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One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
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The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
