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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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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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All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
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You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.
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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.
