C. S. Lewis Quotes
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
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We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed.
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'Deathstroke' became an interesting challenge - not just because of his ethnicity, but because he's a villain. I've never written a villain as a protagonist of a series before. I thought this could be an interesting challenge. That's really what got my attention, and it just went from there.
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I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
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And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
