C. S. Lewis Quotes
We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
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Tous maux sont pareils alors qu’ils sont extrêmes.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
