C. S. Lewis Quotes
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
