C. S. Lewis Quotes
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Venus favors the bold.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brushed sacrificial ritual aside altogether as trifling compared with righteousness, nay, as a harmful substitute and a hindrance for ethical religion.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.
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Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should - not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second idea no more clearly than that). Another point of pain was that 'here' and 'not here' seemed to be not two halves of a homogeneous whole, but two dissonances.
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A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
