C. S. Lewis Quotes
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
