C. S. Lewis Quotes

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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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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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then, having left school shortly after my GCSEs, I auditioned for the National Youth Theatre of Wales and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as well as the Welsh National Youth Opera. I ended up getting into all three.
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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
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It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.