C. S. Lewis Quotes

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

C. S. Lewis

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• Worldliness

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• 'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

  

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• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
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• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
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• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
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• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
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  • Different
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• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Learn
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• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Lost
  • Party

• In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

  

  Om Puri
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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
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• Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

  

  Ira Glass
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  • Listening

• Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

  

  Jacques Maritain
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• If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

  

  Sally Mann
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• Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

  

  David Guetta

• For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• I was awake for the therapy, it was documented by a film crew. I am proud to have taken part of helping millions of people even if it has bad results.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • People
  • Bad
  • Proud

• You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Evil
  • Inspiration
  • Spell