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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People say that the paintings are always big because they're striving for effect, but they're also big so that I don't trip over myself, so that I have room to work, and people can come in and be comfortable.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.
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Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.
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A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
