C. S. Lewis Quotes
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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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.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. It's true that lists organise the daily chaos of working life. But the impulse to make lists has to do with something more than either administrative practicalities or the record of a creative process.
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Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
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Art destroys silence.
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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
