C. S. Lewis Quotes
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
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I try to look after myself, but I don't think it's a good thing to be obsessed with body image. I wouldn't want a son or daughter of mine to feel manipulated by that; it's the wrong message.
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When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
