C. S. Lewis Quotes
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
Quotes to Explore
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
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I'm not a big fan of young people.
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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
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Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
